It is almost totally supported by exports of crude oil and natural gas, with revenues from the petroleum sector accounting for over half of GDP.

Because the Gabonese economy is dependent upon oil ( crude oil accounts for over 80 % of the country ’ s exports, 43 % of GDP, and 65 % of state revenue ), it is subject to worldwide price fluctuations.

The United States imports a considerable percentage of Gabonese crude oil and manganese, and exports heavy construction equipment, aircraft, and machinery to Gabon.

The two countries had always enjoyed friendly ties and trade between each other, exports from UAE to Japan include crude oil and natural gas and imports from Japan to UAE include Cars and Electric items.

Petroleum exports are in the form of crude petroleum because Vietnam has a very limited refining capacity.

Vietnam ’ s principal exports were crude oil ( 22. 1 %), textiles and garments ( 17. 1 %), footwear ( 10. 5 %), fisheries products ( 9. 4 %) and electronics ( 4. 1 %).

Vietnam's exports to China include crude oil, coal, coffee and food, while China exports pharmaceuticals, machinery, petroleum, fertilizers and automobile parts to Vietnam.

As at 2012, the Kharg oil terminal is handling about 98 % of Iran's crude exports.

In 2011, U. S. President Barack Obama himself stated that apart from crude oil, the exports of the entire Greater Middle East with its 400 million population roughly equals that of Switzerland.

An Energy Information Administration report stated that OPEC member nations were projected to earn $ 1. 251 trillion in 2008, from their oil exports, due to the record crude prices.

The new policy and the new tax combined to cause Malaysia's output and exports of crude oil to fall in 1981 for the first time since PETRONAS was established.

The pound could buy two dollars because sterling was kept high by Britain's North Sea oil exports and the importance these exports assumed against high crude oil prices.

Reserves of California crude oil at Japanese refineries would have been exhausted in less than two years at the rate of consumption when United States terminated exports to Japan on 26 July 1941.

Shrimp are one of Ecuador's main exports together with crude oil and derivatives, bananas and ornamental flowers.

Having provided the domestic refineries and manufacturing plants with crude oil required for the petroleum products, the NIOC exports its surplus production according to commercial considerations in the framework of the quotas determined by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) and at the prices prevalent in the international markets.

As at 2012, the Kharg oil terminal is handling about 98 % of Iran's crude exports.

Dubai Crude is generally used for pricing Persian Gulf crude oil exports to Asia.

Imports of grain and animal feed and exports of scrap metal for recycling are greater than any other UK port, and traffic crossing the quays includes timber, steel, coal, cocoa, crude oil, edible oils and liquid chemicals.

Recent difficulties have included repeated trade disputes, environmental concerns, Canadian concern for the future of oil exports, and issues of illegal immigration and the threat of terrorism.

When disaggregated, only petroleum and non-petroleum groupings showed different results: a country with relatively low levels of dependence on petroleum exports is at slightly less risk, while a high-level of dependence on oil as an export results in slightly more risk of a civil war than national dependence on another primary commodity.

A devastating earthquake in March 1987 interrupted oil exports and worsened the country's economic problems.

The economy of Ecuador is based mostly on exports of bananas, oil, shrimp, gold, other primary agricultural products and money transfers from nearly a million Ecuadorian emigrants employed abroad.

GDP growth is estimated to recover to over 4 % in 2004, due largely to expanded oil exports.

The completion of the second Transandean Oil Pipeline ( OCP in Spanish ) in 2003 will enable Ecuador to expand oil exports.

Cameroon exports some food products to Equatorial Guinea and imports oil from Equatorial Guinea for its refinery at nearby Limbe.

The oil sector now accounts for 50 % of GDP and 80 % of exports.

Gabon continues to face fluctuating prices for its oil, timber, manganese, and uranium exports.

The first exports began in 1963 with the discovery of oil helping to transform the Libyan economy, although imposing a resource curse on Libya.

After the end of hostilities, in 1988, oil exports gradually increased with the construction of new pipelines and restoration of damaged facilities.

In 2011 Baghdad probably will increase oil exports above the current level of per day as a result of new contracts with international oil companies, but is likely to fall short of the per day it is forecasting in its budget.

Iraq's economy is characterized by a heavy dependence on oil exports and an emphasis on development through central planning.

After hostilities ceased, oil exports gradually increased with the construction of new pipelines and the restoration of damaged facilities.

The Arvand Roud was considered an important channel for the oil exports of both countries, and in 1937, Iran and Iraq signed a treaty to settle the long-standing dispute.

Starting in the mid-1970s the Islamic resurgence was funded by an abundance of money from Saudi Arabian oil exports.

For example it has been estimated that the exports of Finland, a European country of five million, exceeded those of the entire 260 million-strong Arab world, excluding oil revenue.

Jordan is pinning its hopes on tourism, future uranium and oil shale exports, trade, and ICT for future economic growth.

The December 1996 signing of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium agreement to build a new pipeline from western Kazakhstan's Tengiz Field to the Black Sea increases prospects for substantially larger oil exports in several years.

However since 2000, Kazakhstan's economy grew sharply, aided by increased prices on world markets for Kazakhstan's leading exports — oil, metals and grain.

The NIOC exports natural gas and liquefied natural gas via the " National Iranian Gas Export Company ".

Industrial exports include gold, mercury, uranium, natural gas, and electricity.

Luanda has an excellent natural harbour ; the chief exports are coffee, cotton, sugar, diamonds, iron, and salt.

The islands have few natural resources, and imports far exceed exports.

Nigeria's exports of oil and natural gas — at a time of peak prices — have enabled the country to post merchandise trade and current account surpluses in recent years.

Greek-owned tankers have an important role in shipping Nigerian oil and natural gas, its main exports.

Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80 % of Russian exports abroad.

Since 2003, the exports of natural resources started decreasing in economic importance as the internal market strengthened considerably.

Although the United Arab Emirates is becoming less dependent on natural resources as a source of revenue, petroleum and natural gas exports still play an important role in the economy, especially in Abu Dhabi.

In 2009, more than 85 % of the UAE's economy was based on the exports of natural resources.

Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80 % of Russian exports, leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world prices.

* Shipping freight ( important for liquid natural gas ( LNG ) exports ) will grow by an average of 5. 3 percent a year in the 2009-2013.

The exports of Algerian products to Greece amounted to $ 89 million in 2001, including mainly oil and oil derivatives, natural gas, inorganic chemicals, iron and steel.

Bolivia has the second-largest natural gas reserves in South America, and its current domestic use and exports to Brazil account for just a small portion of its potential production.

Coos Bay is considered the best natural harbor between San Francisco Bay and the Puget Sound, and the Port of Coos Bay was the largest forest products shipper in the world until late 2005 when raw log exports via transport ship were suspended.

* economic vulnerability ( based on instability of agricultural production, instability of exports of goods and services, economic importance of non-traditional activities, merchandise export concentration, handicap of economic smallness, and the percentage of population displaced by natural disasters )

In addition, Chimbote was a natural exit channel for the exports of the Santa valley, and a starting point for the entry to the Callejón de Huaylas.

The mechanism is that an increase in revenues from natural resources ( or inflows of foreign aid ) will make a given nation's currency stronger compared to that of other nations ( manifest in an exchange rate ), resulting in the nation's other exports becoming more expensive for other countries to buy, making the manufacturing sector less competitive.

However, since natural gas production in Alberta peaked in 2001 and has been static ever since, it is likely oil sands requirements will be met by cutting back natural gas exports to the United States.

The western part of the harbour basin is currently being expanded, primarily to allow increased exports of liquified natural gas ( LNG ).

He was asked to report on topography, history, antiquities, the condition of the inhabitants, religion, natural productions ( particularly fisheries, forests, mines, and quarries ), agriculture ( covering vegetables, implements, manure, floods, domestic animals, fences, farms, and landed property, fine and common arts, and commerce ( exports and imports, weights and measures, and conveyance of goods ).

The Dutch guilder was regarded as a petrocurrency due to its large quantities of natural gas and North Sea oil exports.