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Some statistics on this page are disputed and controversial—different sources (OPEC, CIA World Factbook, oil companies) give different figures. Some of the differences reflect different types of oil included. Different estimates may or may not include oil shale, mined oil sands or natural gas liquids.
After discovery of oil in the Assam state of India in late 1880s, the first oil refinery was set up at Digboi. Digboi Refinery was commissioned in 1901. [1] Following is a list of oil refineries in India, per the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, [2] arranged in decreasing order of their capacity.
India was the second top net crude oil (including crude oil products) importer of 205.3 Mt in 2019. [4] By March 2021, India's domestic crude oil production output fell by 5.2% and natural gas production by 8.1% in the FY21 as producers extracted 30.4917 Mt of crude oil and 28.67 BCM of natural gas in the fiscal year.
These strategic storages are in addition to the existing storages of crude oil and petroleum products with the oil companies and serve in response to external supply disruptions. [7] Indian refiners maintain 64.5 days of crude storage, so India has overall reserve oil storage of 74 days. [8]
This list of oil fields includes some major oil fields of the past and present. Countries by proven oil reserves 2017. The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. [1] However, 94 % of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1,500 giant and major fields. [2]
[4] [5] The crude oil feedstock has typically been processed by an oil production plant. There is usually an oil depot at or near an oil refinery for the storage of incoming crude oil feedstock as well as bulk liquid products. In 2020, the total capacity of global refineries for crude oil was about 101.2 million barrels per day. [6]
In 2010, India produced an average of about 33.69 million tonnes of crude oil as of April 2010 [14] or 877 thousand barrels per day as per EIA estimate of 2009. [12] During 2006, India consumed an estimated 2.63 Mbbl/d (418,000 m 3 /d) of oil. [15] The EIA estimates that India registered oil demand growth of 100,000 bbl/d (16,000 m 3 /d) during ...
2023 marked the sixth straight year that the United States led the world in oil production; [3] shale oil fracking has dramatically increased the country's oil output since 2010. The United States also became a net petroleum exporter in 2020, for the first time since at least 1949. [4] U.S. crude oil exports reached a record high in the first ...