4 days ago Gulf country risk: Qatar, Saudi Arabia on shakier ground The largest economy in Africa is coping better and investors are returning, but a slowly Crude oil prices dropped precipitously in the latter part of 2014, raising Statistics and map about the crude oil production of the world. (total), Country, Total (barrels per day), per 85, South Africa, 3,000, 3.17, 0.39, 2015 est. 17 Nov 2019 The Springfield Group, which has no history of oil exploration, will in the next few days announce it has made two discoveries totalling 1.2bn barrels of crude in a block operated by the UK's Tullow Oil, is one of Africa's largest recent