Official figures were first recorded of Germany’s crude oil production in 1880, when the total output for the twelve months was about 9,000 barrels. For the past thirty years, the yearly output has been as under—
| Year. | Barrels. |
|---|---|
| 1888 | 84,782 |
| 1889 | 68,217 |
| 1890 | 108,296 |
| 1891 | 108,929 |
| 1892 | 101,404 |
| 1893 | 99,390 |
| 1894 | 122,564 |
| 1895 | 121,277 |
| 1896 | 145,061 |
| 1897 | 165,745 |
| 1898 | 183,427 |
| 1899 | 192,232 |
| 1900 | 358,297 |
| 1901 | 313,630 |
| 1902 | 353,674 |
| 1903 | 445,818 |
| 1904 | 637,431 |
| 1905 | 560,963 |
| 1906 | 578,610 |
| 1907 | 756,631 |
| 1908 | 1,009,278 |
| 1909 | 1,018,837 |
| 1910 | 1,032,522 |
| 1911 | 1,017,045 |
| 1912 | 1,031,050 |
| 1913 | 1,002,700 |
| 1914 | 936,400 |
| 1915 | 960,430 |
| 1916 | 948,320 |
| 1917 | 995,764 |
| 1918 | 820,310 |
Exports of Petroleum Products from the United States
The following table gives the total export movement of petroleum products from the United States from the year 1865, when American petroleum products commenced to have an international overseas market—
| Year. | Gallons. | Value in Dollars. |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 2,714,430,452 | 344,290,444 |
| 1917 | 2,596,900,000 | 253,021,000 |
| 1916 | 2,607,482,000 | 201,721,000 |
| 1915 | 2,328,725,000 | 142,941,000 |
| 1914 | 2,240,033,000 | 139,900,000 |
| 1913 | 2,136,465,000 | 149,316,000 |
| 1912 | 1,883,479,000 | 124,210,000 |
| 1911 | 1,768,731,000 | 105,922,000 |
| 1910 | 1,546,067,000 | 99,090,000 |
| 1909 | 1,561,671,000 | 105,999,000 |
| 1908 | 1,443,537,000 | 104,116,000 |
| 1907 | 1,257,430,000 | 84,855,000 |
| 1906 | 1,257,949,000 | 84,041,000 |
| 1905 | 1,123,334,000 | 79,793,000 |
| 1904 | 984,424,000 | 79,060,000 |
| 1903 | 941,699,000 | 67,253,000 |
| 1902 | 1,106,208,000 | 72,302,000 |
| 1901 | 1,034,643,000 | 71,112,000 |
| 1900 | 967,252,000 | 75,611,000 |
| 1899 | 999,713,000 | 56,273,000 |
| 1898 | 1,034,249,000 | 56,125,000 |
| 1897 | 973,514,000 | 62,635,000 |
| 1896 | 890,458,000 | 62,383,000 |
| 1895 | 884,502,000 | 46,660,000 |
| 1894 | 908,252,000 | 41,499,000 |
| 1893 | 904,337,000 | 42,142,000 |
| 1892 | 715,471,000 | 44,805,000 |
| 1891 | 710,124,000 | 52,026,000 |
| 1890 | 664,491,000 | 51,403,000 |
| 1889 | 616,195,000 | 49,913,000 |
| 1888 | 578,351,000 | 47,042,000 |
| 1887 | 592,803,000 | 46,824,000 |
| 1886 | 577,628,000 | 50,199,000 |
| 1885 | 574,628,000 | 50,257,000 |
| 1884 | 513,660,000 | 47,103,000 |
| 1883 | 505,931,000 | 44,913,000 |
| 1882 | 559,954,000 | 51,232,000 |
| 1881 | 397,660,000 | 40,315,000 |
| 1880 | 423,964,000 | 36,208,000 |
| 1879 | 378,310,000 | 40,305,000 |
| 1878 | 338,841,000 | 46,574,000 |
| 1877 | 309,198,000 | 61,789,000 |
| 1876 | 243,660,000 | 32,915,000 |
| 1875 | 221,955,000 | 30,078,000 |
| 1874 | 247,806,000 | 41,245,000 |
| 1873 | 187,815,000 | 42,050,000 |
| 1872 | 145,171,000 | 34,058,000 |
| 1871 | 149,892,000 | 36,894,000 |
| 1870 | 113,735,000 | 32,668,000 |
| 1869 | 100,636,000 | 31,127,000 |
| 1868 | 79,456,000 | 21,810,000 |
| 1867 | 70,255,000 | 24,407,000 |
| 1866 | 50,987,000 | 24,830,000 |
| 1865 | 25,496,000 | 16,563,000 |
Russia’s Crude Oil Production During the Past Fifty Years
The output of crude petroleum in the Russian oil-fields during the past fifty years is given in the following table. For the purpose of comparison, the figures are given in barrels of 42 gallons, rather than in poods (62 to the ton) which is the usual manner of recording Russian quantities. The figures are as under—
| Year. | Barrels. |
|---|---|
| 1869 | 202,308 |
| 1870 | 204,618 |
| 1871 | 165,129 |
| 1872 | 184,391 |
| 1873 | 474,379 |
| 1874 | 583,751 |
| 1875 | 697,364 |
| 1876 | 1,320,528 |
| 1877 | 1,800,720 |
| 1878 | 2,400,960 |
| 1879 | 2,761,104 |
| 1880 | 3,001,200 |
| 1881 | 3,601,441 |
| 1882 | 4,537,815 |
| 1883 | 6,002,401 |
| 1884 | 10,804,577 |
| 1885 | 13,924,596 |
| 1886 | 18,006,407 |
| 1887 | 18,367,781 |
| 1888 | 23,048,787 |
| 1889 | 24,609,407 |
| 1890 | 28,691,218 |
| 1891 | 34,573,181 |
| 1892 | 35,774,504 |
| 1893 | 40,456,519 |
| 1894 | 36,375,428 |
| 1895 | 46,140,174 |
| 1896 | 47,220,633 |
| 1897 | 54,399,568 |
| 1898 | 61,609,357 |
| 1899 | 65,954,968 |
| 1900 | 75,779,417 |
| 1901 | 85,168,556 |
| 1902 | 80,540,044 |
| 1903 | 75,591,256 |
| 1904 | 78,536,655 |
| 1905 | 54,960,270 |
| 1906 | 58,897,311 |
| 1907 | 61,850,734 |
| 1908 | 62,186,447 |
| 1909 | 65,970,250 |
| 1910 | 70,336,574 |
| 1911 | 66,183,691 |
| 1912 | 68,019,208 |
| 1913 | 62,834,356 |
| 1914 | 67,020,522 |
| 1915 | 68,548,062 |
| 1916 | 72,801,110 |
| 1917 | 69,000,000 |
INDEX
- Advantages of liquid fuel, [78]
- A few notable petroleum enterprises, [148]
- American petroleum exports, [163]
- America’s crude oil production, [160]
- America, the petroleum industry in, [8]
- Anglo-American Oil Company, Ltd., the, [156]
- Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd., the, [153]
- Baku-Batoum pipe-line, [24], [69]
- Baku, boring operations in, [22]
- ——, the oil-fields of, [19]
- British Empire, petroleum in, [114]
- Burmah Oil Company, Ltd., the, [152]
- ——, the oil fields of, [35]
- California petroleum industry, [9]
- Canada, petroleum in, [118]
- Chemical composition of petroleum, [52]
- Cooking by means of oil, [93]
- Distillation of Scottish oil shales, [144]
- Drilling methods for oil, [41]
- Dutch Indies, petroleum in the, [23]
- Egyptian oil-fields, the, [116]
- Empire oil, [114]
- England, petroleum in, [104]
- England’s petroleum trade, [160]
- Famous oil companies, [148]
- Fifty years’ American production, [160]
- —— —— Russian production, [164]
- Galicia’s crude oil production, [162]
- Galicia, the oil-fields of, [36]
- Germany’s attempts at oil production, [39]
- —— march on Roumania, [30]
- —— output of crude oil, [162]
- Hand-dug wells in Roumania, [29]
- Heathfield, natural gas in, [109]
- How petroleum is produced, [41]
- —— —— is refined, [51]
- —— the Scottish shales are operated, [136]
- Internal combustion engines, [95]
- Japan, petroleum in, [36]
- Liquid fuel in the Navy, [78]
- Lord Cowdray’s enterprise in England, [111]
- —— —— —— Mexico, [16], [151]
- Maikop oil boom, the, [20]
- Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., new engines of, [96], [102]
- Methods of drilling wells, [43]
- Mexico’s crude oil production, [161]
- —— petroleum industry, [12]
- Ocean oil transport facilities, [71]
- Oil fuel advantages, [82]
- Origin of petroleum, [3]
- Petroleum as fuel, [76]
- —— in England, [104]
- —— in historical times, [2]
- Petroleum’s part in the Great War, [123]
- Petroleum, the production of, [41]
- ——, the refining of, [51]
- ——, the world’s output of, [158]
- Remarkable oil wells in Mexico, [14]
- Rotary system of drilling, [48]
- Roumania, petroleum industry of, [28]
- Roumania’s crude oil production, [160]
- Russia, petroleum industry of, [18]
- Russia’s crude oil production, [164]
- Scottish oil pipe-line, [70]
- —— shale-oil industry, [132]
- “Shell” Company and the Dutch Indies, [33]
- —— Transport and Trading Co., the, [150]
- Sir Marcus Samuel, Bart., and toluol supplies, [130]
- Solar oil for gas enrichment purposes, [61]
- Staffordshire, petroleum in, [106]
- Texas, the oil-fields of, [10]
- Toluol from Borneo petroleum, [62]
- Transport of petroleum, [63]
- Trinidad, progress in, [117]
- Vicker’s oil engines, [102]