Well, I'll be dipped in shit and frozen. Thank you for setting me straight, I was looking at the numbers from the oil companies themselves from a year ago. They've just topped 13 m which was what they reached in 2020 before the drop down to 7/8. Of course that's a pro oil PR source. Which has no reflection to do with your posting the message.
No, no. I'm not writing about the numbers themselves, just the actual source of the authors story. It's a marketing website. The author is a pro fossil fuels as per his history. He just added the chart for his piece. The info isn't in doubt at all. That site is a article regurgitator of unending titles.