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Syria has been torn apart, but its role as an oil producer simply isn’t that important to global supplies. To put Syria’s lost production in context, Syria’s neighbor Iraq – also ravaged by Islamic State attacks – has managed to more than make up for Syria’s loss of 380,000 barrels per day. Since last year alone, Iraq has succeeded in increasing output from an average of 3.37 million barrels per day to over 4 million barrels per day as of August 2015, or about double the entire lost output from pre-war Syria.
For comparison the Saudi's do about 10 million barrels a day.
http://energyfuse.org/why-the-syrian-war-is-not-pushing-up-oil-prices/
https://ycharts.com/indicators/saudi_arabia_crude_oil_production
For comparison the Saudi's do about 10 million barrels a day.
http://energyfuse.org/why-the-syrian-war-is-not-pushing-up-oil-prices/
https://ycharts.com/indicators/saudi_arabia_crude_oil_production
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