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Commercial energy use	5,081.43		[17th of 119]
Electric power consumption > kWh	148,032,000,000 kWh		[18th of 132]
DEFINITION: Electric power consumption measures the production of power plants and combined heat and power plants less transmission, distribution, and transformation losses and own use by heat and power plants.		View time series
Electricity > Production by source > Fossil fuel	100%		[36th of 223]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of electricity generated from each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and other (solar, geothermal, and wind).		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Electricity > Production by source > Hydro	0%		[192nd of 223]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of electricity generated from each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and other (solar, geothermal, and wind).		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Electricity > Production by source > Nuclear	0%		[141st of 223]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of electricity generated from each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and other (solar, geothermal, and wind).		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Gasoline prices	0.39		[134th of 141]
DEFINITION: Ratio of premium gasoline price to world average Units: Ratio of Gasoline Price to World Average Units: Pump price for super gasoline (US$ per liter): Fuel prices refer to the pump prices of the most widely sold grade of gasoline. Prices have been converted from the local currency to U.S. dollars, and the ratio of the gas price to the world average in the same time period was used in order to normalize the data. For more information, see World Development Indicators, Table 3.12.
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Hydroelectricity consumption	0		[185th of 213]
DEFINITION: Figures for year 2003 in billion kilowatthours
SOURCE: German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Fuel Prices and Taxation (1999) and the electronic update for2000. Available from World Bank, World Development Indicators 2002, WDI table 3.12. via ciesin.org
Natural gas reserves	6,339,000,000,000 cubic feet		[4th of 72]
SOURCE: Energy Information Administration
Oil Consumption > Million tonnes	79.6		[14th of 63]
DEFINITION: Oil: Consumption, Million tonnes, as of end of 2004 Notes: Others have less than 0.05		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Oil Consumption > Thousand barrels daily	1,728		[14th of 63]
DEFINITION: Oil: Consumption, Thousand barrels daily, as of end of 2004 Notes: Others have less than 0.05
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Oil exports > Net	6,710,000 barrels per day		[1st of 32]
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Oil production in 1972	6,070 thousand barrels / day		[2nd of 36]
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Oil production in 1992	9,098 thousand barrels / day		[1st of 47]
SOURCE: BP
Oil refining ability	1,750,000 barrels per day		[9th of 51]
DEFINITION: Crude oil refining capacity
SOURCE: BP
Oil reserves	262,700,000,000 barrels		[1st of 97]
DEFINITION: According to Web definitions the term refers to the total amount of petroleum (oil) discovered in any given oil field or nation. Thus it can be said that Kuwait has xxxx millions of barrels (mb) of oil in the ground. However, the exact amount can never be known, simply because of the difficulty in sensing or "seeing" beneath the surface of the Earth. The term Proven Reserve or PR refers to an amount of oil that is generally accepted by geologists to be the actual amount of petroleum in the ground.
SOURCE: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy
OPEC > About OPEC > OPEC Quotas and Production > Capacity	10,500,000		[1st of 10]
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Primary Energy Consumption > Million tonnes oil equivalent	137.2		[17th of 63]
DEFINITION: Primary Energy: Consumption, Million tonnes oil equivalent, as of end of 2004 Notes: Others have less than 0.05
SOURCE: Wikipedia: OPEC
Traditional fuel consumption	0%		[121st of 130]
DEFINITION: Traditional fuel consumption as a % of total energy use.
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Wall plugs > Plug type "Europe, USA, UK"
DEFINITION: PowerStream
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Wall plugs > Voltage	110 V		[200th of 209]
DEFINITION: PowerStream

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