Spain is highly dependent on imports to meet its energy requirements, with domestic energy production only meeting 23% of Spain's total energy consumption. Spain has a small amount of proven oil reserves and produced only 3,000 bbl/d of crude oil in 2006. The importance of oil to the Spanish economy has declined somewhat in recent years, with oil's share of total energy consumption falling from 77% in 1980 to 54% in 2002. However, because the country's total energy consumption has risen dramatically over that period, Spain's oil consumption in absolute terms has increased from 990,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) in 1980 to 1614.85 thousand barrels a day of oil in 2007. According to the 2008 BP Statistical Energy Survey, Spain had 2007 natural gas consumption of 35.11 billion cubic metres, 1.19% of the world total and a refinery capacity of 1377 thousand barrels a day, 1.56% of the world total.
