Oil production levels reached 3.4 million barrels per day by December 2012.

This figure, industry sources said, has now reached two million barrels.

By 2003 the oil production from the basin had reached 1.21 million barrels per day.

Production from the field is expected to reach 140,000 barrels a day in 1991.

The administration goal is to reach 700 million barrels by sometime next year.

For example, gasoline imports reached one million barrels a day last year, or nearly 11 percent of the country's daily needs.

It reached 7.63 million barrels a day for the first half, down 5.9 percent from a year earlier and the lowest in 29 years.

Imports reached more than 10 million barrels a day in April.

By 1990 China plans to reach 2.5 million barrels a day.

Advocates say oil production could reach one million barrels per day.