Norway is the world's fifth largest oil exporter, producing almost 2.5m barrels a day.
But they would not address the underlying mismatch between any oil exporter and a dollar peg.
The agency expects Iraq eventually to overtake Russia as the world's second-largest oil exporter.
The Libya story is more than that of a major oil exporter shutting down.
North America (the United States and Canada) is projected to become a net oil exporter by 2030.
The United Arab Emirates is a major oil exporter and a key Western ally in the region.
If predictions are accurate, the report argues, Sudan could become a "new medium-scale oil exporter" during the Bush administration.
Meanwhile, falling U.S. oil imports mean that North America as a whole becomes a net oil exporter by around 2030.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been acknowledged for his programs aimed at fighting poverty in the world's fifth largest oil exporter.
As a net oil exporter, Britain is less vulnerable to higher prices than other major economies that rely on oil imports.
Although Venezuela is the world's fifth largest oil exporter, its economy contracted by more than 7% in the first half of the year.
Indonesian companies such as Sinar Mas, a big palm-oil exporter, say the central bank has sounded them out on their readiness to do so.
As a net oil exporter, Canada is severely hurt by declines in oil, while Japan, a major net oil importer, tends to benefit.
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Libya is not a major oil exporter to the US. Russia is a larger oil and gas exporter to Europe and the US than is Libya.
That will surely mean America stops looking to the rest of the world for energy security, and by around 2030, it becomes a net oil exporter.
An oil exporter as recently as the early 1990s, China passed the United States last year as the biggest customer for Saudi oil and gas exports.
In 1972, when Texaco completed construction of a pipeline to funnel oil to the Pacific coast, Ecuador instantly became the second-largest oil exporter in Latin America, after Venezuela.
It vies with Angola as sub-Saharan Africa's largest oil exporter, mainly to America, and is the eighth-biggest oil exporter in the world, with stated reserves of 38.5 billion barrels.
Nigeria is sub-Saharan Africa's second-biggest economy after South Africa's and the world's eighth-largest oil exporter, yet the continent's most populous country (with 140m-plus citizens) has yet to fulfil its economic potential.
We were, on net, a vast crude oil exporter.
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While the Kingdom is the world's largest oil exporter, power demand is growing approximately 8% per year, prompting authorities to investigate alternative sources of power, that can ease the demand on its primary source of income.
Mexico's oil output has fallen to about 2.6 million barrels a day from a peak of 3.4 million in 2004, and experts say Mexico could cease to be a major oil exporter within the next six years.
Numerous U.S. officials have traveled recently to Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, to discuss the country's ability to increase exports enough to make up for the loss of Iranian oil under the sanctions, the official said.
Under the rule of Sani Abacha, who died last year, Nigeria's leaders damaged the state's oil refineries so much that the world's 11th-biggest oil exporter found itself importing fuel (to the profit of the president and his mates).
Everyone gets oil, every exporter exports oil, everybody gets paid and the only real pain is that some poor sailors have to spend a few more days at sea.
As the world's biggest oil producer and exporter, Saudi Arabia is awash with money, yet it cannot find anything like enough jobs for its citizens.
But if American energy producers are able to tap into even a fraction of this supply, our domestic energy production could well outstrip that of Saudi Arabia, which is currently the largest oil producer and exporter of total petroleum liquids in the world with a reserve base estimated around 260 billion barrels.
Among those sending oil out through those Straits is Iraq, which is on track to become the second biggest exporter of oil by 2035, after Russia.
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter of oil, was the first to call for an investigation.
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