The table demonstrates amounts of oil in barrels per day produced by four African countries from 2000 to 2004. Overall, there were no drastic changes in oil production shares among African countries. The leading nations in oil production were Nigeria and Congo, while the last places were occupied by Cote and Chad.
Nigeria produced around 2 millions of barrels per day, while Congo’s production amounted to 270,000 barrels per day in 2000. On the contrast, Cote produced only 8000 barrels per day, whereas Chad had 0 share in oil production among African countries until 2002, but suddenly increasing to a 15,000 barrels per day in 2003.
Among four countries, only Congo showed continuos decline in oil production of around 20,000 barrels per day except for the last year when the decrease was of 10,000 barrels. Whereas, other countries had an upward trend in most years with 1 exception. Nigeria had 100,000 increase each year except 2002, when its oil production droped from 2,100,000 to 1,900,000. However, immediately bouncing back to 2,200,000 in 2003, therefore continuing the upward trend. Lastly, Cote had a drastic rise from producing 15,000 barrels in 2002 to 40,000 in 2003, and 55,000 barrels in the consequent year.
In conclusion, there has not been dramatic changes in oil production among four African countries. Except Chad gaining market share in oil production in the middle of the period.