Statistics – Ministry of Finance

Development and Exploratory Drilling and Domestic Crude Production

Development and Exploratory Drilling (thousand metres)
	Oct '16/ Sep '17	Oct '17/ Sep '18	Oct '18/ Sep '19	Oct '19/ Sep '20	Oct '20/ Sep '21	Oct '20/ May '21	Oct '21/ May '22p

Total Depth Drilled	132.0	94.6	99.0	61.5	67.8	47.5	26.4
Land	65.9	36.2	35.0	15.3	12.4	3.7	15.9
Marine	66.0	58.4	64.0	46.2	55.3	43.8	10.5

Development Drilling	119.9	81.9	59.3	17.4	47.4	39.4	17.1
Exploratory Drilling	12.0	12.7	39.8	44.1	20.4	8.2	9.3


Number of Wells Drilled
	Oct '16/ Sep '17	Oct '17/ Sep '18	Oct '18/ Sep '19	Oct '19/ Sep '20	Oct '20/ Sep '21	Oct '20/ May '21	Oct '21/ May '22p

No. of Wells Drilled*	89	50	45	22	25	16	14

Development	85	46	34	9	19	14	13
Exploratory	4	4	11	13	6	2	1


Domestic Crude and Condensate Production
	Oct '16/ Sep '17	Oct '17/ Sep '18	Oct '18/ Sep '19	Oct '19/ Sep '20	Oct '20/ Sep '21	Oct '20/ May '21	Oct '21/ May '22p

Total Crude and Condensate

Barrels of Oil per day (BOPD)	72,209	66,878	58,351	57,211	58,619	57,886	59,835**

Land (%)	30.9	32.2	32.5	31.6	30.2	30.9	29.2
Marine (%)	69.1	67.8	67.5	68.4	69.8	69.1	70.8

Crude Production

Barrels of Oil per day (BOPD)	58,785	57,153	49,141	48,999	50,220	48,827	53,454

Condensate Production

Barrels of Oil per day (BOPD)	13,423	9,726	9,210	8,212	8,398	9,059	6,380

Source: Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries
p: Provisional
* Refers to wells started during the period
** Updated data for crude oil and condensate production (up to July 2022) indicates that output totalled 58,905 barrels per day in June and 58,017 barrels per day in July. The average production over the period October 2021 to July 2022 was therefore 59,546 barrels per day, reflecting an increase of 2.4 percent compared to the similar period one year earlier.