Syria was ranked tenth among the 20 Arab nation in per capita consumption of total energy, accordingto report data on Arab oil resources in Arab countries, the per capita of total energy consumption in Syria in 2001 amounted to about 6.7 barrels of equivalent oil per year.

The following year rose to about 7.6 barrels and a very limited increase in 2003 at about 7.7 barrels and continue to rise in 2004 to about 8 barrels, then 8.4 in 2005 and 8.7 in 2006 …

 
comparing the Syria data with a per capita consumption of energy in the total of 19 Arab nations, Syria is ranked tenth ahead of Tunisia, Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, Morocco, Mauritania and Yemen …

 
What is striking about the data that the rate of per capita total energy consumption in Saudi Arabia in 2006 was only 39 barrels of equivalent oil per year, while Qatar recorded the highest rate of 217.7 and Bahrain at 133.5 annually, while Somalia was the lowest rate of 0.2 Sudan is about 0.7 barrels…

 
And also remarkable in the data and statistical indicators in that report that while the increased per capita energy consumption in Syria, Syria’s production of crude oil was back down or fall from 522 thousand barrels per day in 2001 to about 377 thousand barrels in 2006 , While natural gas production rise to a few, where in 2001 some 5.6 billion cubic meters and in 2006 reached about 7.3 billion cubic meters …