Petroleum production in the Middle East countries in 1954 totaled 998,804,700 barrels (partly estimated for Iran), an average of 2,716,460 barrels per day. This is an all-time high and exceeded the daily average production in 1953 by 291,070 barrels.

Production in India, Pakistan, and Burma totaled 5,733,000 barrels, an average of 15,710 barrels per day as compared with 13,560 barrels per day in 1953.

Two new fields were put on production in 1954, namely, Rumaila in southeast Iraq, and Nahorkatiya in northeast India.

A discovery of oil was made at Jambur located south-southeast of the Kirkuk field, in Iraq. Step-out drilling extended the productive areas of fields in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and India.

Geological and/or geophysical exploration was energetically carried out in Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the province of Dhofar in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, India, and Pakistan. Geophysical work was continued in the under-water concessions outside the territorial waters of Qatar and the sheikdoms of Abu Dhabi and Dubai on the Trucial Coast.