Early warning posted production charts for three of the big IOCs. Today I add the other three supermajors (Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Total). The aggregate production for all six is shown above. Note that this is all liquids - ie it includes natural gas liquids and syncrude from tar sands in addition to regular crude oil.As you can see the supermajors as a group have not grown over the last decade and indeed show something of a peak in 2004-2005 from which they have since declined. Here are the individual lines (which in some cases go back further):
Oct 23, 2011
Peak Supermajor was in 2005?
Early warning posted production charts for three of the big IOCs. Today I add the other three supermajors (Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Total). The aggregate production for all six is shown above. Note that this is all liquids - ie it includes natural gas liquids and syncrude from tar sands in addition to regular crude oil.As you can see the supermajors as a group have not grown over the last decade and indeed show something of a peak in 2004-2005 from which they have since declined. Here are the individual lines (which in some cases go back further):