“Little Caracas on the Prairie North Dakota has passed once-mighty Venezuela in oil output, but still trails in other things By Spencer Jakab Dec. 10, 2018 4:15 p.m. ET You know things are bad when North Dakota zooms past you. Venezuela, by some measures home to the world’s largest crude reserves, saw oil output drop in September to a four-decade low of 1.17 million barrels. The same month saw North Dakota, owner of the Guinness World Record for the most snow angels, produce a record of nearly 1.3 million barrels. 2000 - Venuzula --3.2 M barrels, or 33 times what north dakota produced. ”
