The EIA updated their International Energy Statistics on Monday September 29. However there was an error in their data which I caught right away. They had Kazakhstan increasing C+C production by 856,000 barrels per day. EIA Error Above is their C+C data, January through June. I emailed Patrica Smith, the EIA employee who posts these stats. She emailed me right back: Mr. Patterson, Thank you very much for catching the error. The numbers were transposed. I will ask the database manger to make the correction. So I waited. The next day the correction had not been made so I emailed her back asking her for the correct numbers because this error also affected total world production as well as non-OPEC production. She emailed me back: Mr. Patterson, The crude number should be 1520 instead of 2420. So the number was off by 900 kbpd, Kazakhstan C+C production was actually down 44 […]