Writing Task 1
The table below shows daily oil production in 4 countries from 2000 to 2004
Sample Answer band 8.0+
The table compares the number of barrels of oil produced in a single day in four African countries, namely Nigeria, Chad, Congo, and Somalia between 2000 and 2004. As can be seen, all countries witnessed an upward trend in their daily oil output, except for Congo. Noticeably, despite seeing the most rapid growth rate over 5 years, Chad remained one of the two smallest producers.
To begin with, there was a switch in ranks between Nigeria and Congo whose daily oil volume far outnumbered the other countries’. In 2000, Congo led in production, at 275,000 barrels whereas Nigeria only made 205,000 barrels per day. However, in 2004, Nigeria overtook Congo to rank first with 213,000 barrels being produced in a single day, 10,000 barrels more than the figure for Congo.
However, the daily oil production in the other two countries was insignificant. Specifically, 5000 barrels was the figure for Somalia in 2000, which then saw a steady rise until 2004 when it grew more than two-fold to reach 50,000 barrels per day. As for Chad, not until 2003 did this country record its very first 8000 barrels of crude oil produced on a daily basis and this amount surged to finish at an equal level of production to Somalia’s in the last year.
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