Primary Sources

Government Energy Resources

The official ministries, regulators, and national oil companies behind the world's twenty leading crude-producing nations, straight from the source.

Every country with meaningful crude production publishes its own official energy data, policy, and regulatory information, usually through a ministry, a national regulator, or a state oil company. Below are direct links to the primary source for twenty of the world's leading producers, useful for verifying production figures, sanctions status, or regulatory changes at the origin rather than secondhand.

These are official government and state-entity sources, compiled from public information. Government sites occasionally restructure their domains; if a link has moved, the agency name below should surface the current one in any search engine.

Americas

CountryAgencySource
United StatesEnergy Information Administration (EIA)eia.gov ↗
CanadaCanada Energy Regulator (CER)cer-rec.gc.ca ↗
BrazilAgência Nacional do Petróleo (ANP)gov.br/anp ↗
MexicoComisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH)gob.mx/cnh ↗
ColombiaAgencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH)anh.gov.co ↗

Middle East

CountryAgencySource
Saudi ArabiaMinistry of Energymoenergy.gov.sa ↗
IraqMinistry of Oiloil.gov.iq ↗
IranMinistry of Petroleummop.ir ↗
United Arab EmiratesMinistry of Energy & Infrastructuremoei.gov.ae ↗
KuwaitMinistry of Oilmoo.gov.kw ↗
QatarQatarEnergyqatarenergy.qa ↗
OmanMinistry of Energy & Mineralsmem.gov.om ↗

Africa

CountryAgencySource
NigeriaNigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commissionnuprc.gov.ng ↗
AlgeriaMinistry of Energy & Minesenergy.gov.dz ↗
AngolaAgência Nacional de Petróleo, Gás e Biocombustíveis (ANPG)anpg.co.ao ↗
LibyaNational Oil Corporation (NOC)noc.ly ↗

Europe, Russia & Central Asia

CountryAgencySource
RussiaMinistry of Energy of the Russian Federationminenergo.gov.ru ↗
NorwayNorwegian Offshore Directoratesodir.no ↗
KazakhstanMinistry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstangov.kz/energo ↗

Asia-Pacific

CountryAgencySource
ChinaNational Energy Administration (NEA)nea.gov.cn ↗

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