According to the IEA's World Energy Outlook, global energy demand
will grow by more than a third over the period to 2035, driven largely
by rising living standards in China, India, and the Middle East, which
together will account for 60% of that increase. At the same time,
unconventional resources are changing the global energy map: the IEA
forecast that the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia
as the world's top oil producer by 2017 and become a net exporter of
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oil by 2030. The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information
Agency has provided evidence bolstering this conclusion with its
finding that crude oil production increased by 790,000 barrels per day
(bbl/d) from 2011 to 2012, the largest increase in annual output since
the beginning of the U.S.'s commercial crude oil production in 1859.
The effect of energy developments in the United States is going to be
felt well beyond North America.