New Zealand Oil

Summary Table

Barrels Global Rank
Oil Reserves 64,100,000 #75 in the world
Barrels per dayGlobal Rank
Oil Production 43,907 #66 in the world
Oil Consumption 166,913 #60 in the world
Daily Deficit −123,006
Oil Imports 108,214
Oil Exports 31,474
Net Imports 76,740
(Data shown in the table is for 2016, the latest year with complete data in all categories)

Oil Reserves in New Zealand

See also: List of countries by Oil Reserves

New Zealand holds 64,100,000 barrels of proven oil reserves in the world as of 2016, ranking #75 in the world and accounting for about 0.0039% of the world’s total oil reserves of 1,650,585,140,000.

New Zealand has proven reserves equivalent to 1.1 times its annual consumption levels. This means that, without imports, there would be about 1 years of oil left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).


Oil Reserves
64,100,000 barrels
Global Rank: #75 | Share of World: 0.0039%
1 years of oil left
(at current consumption levels)

History of Oil Reserves in New Zealand


Oil Consumption in New Zealand

See also: List of countries by Oil Consumption

  • New Zealand consumes 166,913 barrels per day (B/d) of oil as of the year 2016.

  • New Zealand ranks #60 in the world for oil consumption, accounting for about 0.17% of the world’s total consumption of 97,103,871 barrels per day.

  • New Zealand consumes 1.49 gallons of oil per capita every day (based on the 2016 population of 4,714,770 people), or 543 gallons per capita per year (13 barrels). [1 barrel = 42 US Gallons]

Oil Production in New Zealand

See also: List of countries by Oil Production

  • New Zealand produces 43,907 barrels per day of oil (as of 2016) ranking #66 in the world.

  • New Zealand produces every year an amount equivalent to 25% of its total proven reserves (as of 2016).

Oil Imports

  • New Zealand imports 46% of its oil consumption (76,740 barrels per day in 2016).

History of Oil Consumption and Production


See also

Sources