Ghana Oil

Summary Table

  Barrels Global Rank
660,000,000 43rd in the world

  Barrels per Day Global Rank
99,114 49th in the world
88,000 84th in the world
Daily Surplus
+ 11,114  
Oil Imports
18,636  
Oil Exports
73,654  
55,018  
(Data shown is for 2016, the latest year with complete data in all categoreies)

Oil Reserves in Ghana

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Ghana holds 660,000,000 barrels of proven oil reserves as of 2016, ranking 43rd in the world and accounting for about 0.0% of the world's total oil reserves of 1,650,585,140,000 barrels.

Ghana has proven reserves equivalent to 20.5 times its annual consumption. This means that, without Net Exports, there would be about 21 years of oil left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).

Oil Reserves
660,000,000 barrels
Global Rank: 43rd | Share of World: 0.04 %
21 years of oil left
(at current consumption levels)

History of Oil Reserves in Ghana

Oil Consumption in Ghana

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  • Ghana consumes 88,000 barrels per day (B/d) of oil as of the year 2016.
  • Ghana ranks 84th in the world for oil consumption, accounting for about 0.1% of the world's total consumption of 97,103,871 barrels per day.
  • Ghana consumes 0.13 gallons of oil per capita every day (based on the 2016 population of 29,356,742 people), or 46 gallons per capita per year (1 barrels). [1 barrel = 42 US Gallons]

Oil Production in Ghana

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  • Ghana produces 99,113.66 barrels per day of oil (as of 2016) ranking 49th in the world.
  • Ghana produces every year an amount equivalent to 5.5% of its total proven reserves (as of 2016).

Oil Exports

  • Ghana exports 56% of its oil production (55,018 barrels per day in 2016).

History of Oil Consumption and Production

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