crude oil production

Statistical agencies report production as country-period flows. EIA's International Energy Statistics tags crude-oil-production alongside reserves and imports-exports, covering crude output 'for every producing nation' with annual, quarterly and monthly histories. JODI-Oil standardizes further: monthly crude and product flows for 114 participating economies representing more than 90% of global supply and demand, from January 2002 onward, about 283,000 rows per annual primary CSV in five units.

Resolution rises as scope narrows. The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels publishes 46,741 asset-level records across 89 countries with per-year production points per asset and per country. At the bottom of the pyramid sit regulators: the Railroad Commission of Texas distributes lease-month production tables (PDQ dump ~25 GB uncompressed), and NY State publishes one record per well per calendar year from 2001 onward.

Production numbers differ by definition long before they differ by value - condensate treatment, reporting lags and lease-vs-country boundaries all move totals.

• Scope decides comparability. JODI-Oil's 114 economies cover 90%+ of the market; EIA reaches every producer but with heterogeneous depth.
• Latency differs by source class. JODI-Oil runs to one month old; RRC statewide files cover the trailing 24-26 months in bulk form.
• Asset-level views answer different questions. GRFF's 46,741 assets across 89 countries support transition-risk analysis, not national accounts.
• Unit harmonization is your job. JODI-Oil ships five unit families (volume, rate, mass) - normalize before summing anything.

1. Match geographic grain to your question. Country-month (EIA, JODI-Oil), asset-year (GRFF) and well-year (NY State) answer different questions; pick deliberately.

1. Verify the reporting flow definition. 'Crude oil production' excludes or includes condensate depending on source; check each dataset's flow taxonomy before comparing magnitudes.

1. Check temporal start and lag. JODI-Oil starts January 2002 and publishes to one month old; RRC PDQ reaches back to 1993 - align windows before trending.

1. Confirm units and conversions. Five units ship in JODI-Oil (volume, rate, mass); document conversion choices so aggregates reconcile.

1. Prefer bulk files for reproducibility. ~283,000-row annual CSVs and a ~25 GB PDQ dump beat portal queries for auditable pipelines.

Entries that sit next to crude oil production in this glossary:

• natural-gas-production
• oil-gas-reserves
• trade-flows-imports-exports
• well-production-data