List of countries by proven oil reserves

Summary

Proven oil reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated, with a high degree of confidence, to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.

Map of countries with proven oil reserves - according to U.S. EIA (start of 2017)
Trends in proven oil reserves in top five countries, 1980–2013 (data from US Energy Information Administration)
A map of world oil reserves according to OPEC, January 2014

Some statistics on this page are disputed and controversial—different sources (OPEC, CIA World Factbook, oil companies) give different figures. Some of the differences reflect different types of oil included. Different estimates may or may not include oil shale, mined oil sands or natural gas liquids.

Because proven reserves include oil recoverable under current economic conditions, nations may see large increases in proven reserves when known, but previously uneconomic deposits become economic to develop. In this way, Canada's proven reserves increased suddenly in 2003 when the oil sands of Alberta were seen to be economically viable. Similarly, Venezuela's proven reserves jumped in the late 2000s when the heavy oil of the Orinoco Belt was judged economic.

Sources edit

Sources sometimes differ on the volume of proven oil reserves. The differences sometimes result from different classes of oil included, and sometimes result from different definitions of proven. (The data below does not seem to include shale oil and other "unconventional" sources of oil such as tar sands. For instance, North America has over 3 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves,[citation needed] and the majority of oil produced in the USA is from shale, leading to the paradoxical data below that the USA will finish all its oil at current production in 11 years, because the production is mostly from shale but the reserves cited omit all shale reserves.)

Comparison of proven oil reserves from some widely used sources (billions of barrels, as of 31 Dec 2014)

Source Canada Iran Iraq Russia Saudi Arabia United States Venezuela
BP[1] 172.9 157.8 143 103.2 267.0 48.5 298.3
OPEC[2] 4.2 157.5 147.2 80.0 266.6 36.5 300.0
US CIA[3] 171.0 157.8 147 103.2 268.3 36.5 298.4
US EIA[4] 172.5 157.8 145 80.0 268.3 39.9 298.4

Countries edit

Reserves amounts are listed in millions of barrels.

Proven reserves (millions of barrels)
Country US EIA
[5]
OPEC
[6]
BP
[7]
Others Oil production
2021 (bbl/day)[8]
Years of
production
in reserve
  Venezuela *(OPEC) 304,000.00 302,809 300,900 700,000 1,000
  Saudi Arabia *(OPEC) 259,000.00 266,260 266,000 10,846,000 65.4
  Iran *(OPEC) 209,000.00 [9] 208,600 155,600 3,511,000 163
  Canada * 170,000.00 4,421 172,200 [10] 171,000 5,663,000 82
  Iraq *(OPEC) 145,000.00 147,223 143,100 4,188,000 94.8
  Kuwait *(OPEC) 102,000.00 104,000 104,000 2,715,000 103
  United Arab Emirates *(OPEC) 98,000.00 111,000 111,000 3,638,000 74
  Russia * 80,000.00 80,000 102,400 9,990,000 20
  Libya *(OPEC) 48,000.00 74,363 78,400 1,224,000 110
  United States * 44,000.00 32,773 55,000 [11] 43,629 11,315,000 6.3
  Nigeria *(OPEC) 37,000.00 37,453 37,100 1,684,000 60
  Kazakhstan * 30,000.00 30,000 30,000 1,849,000 40
  China * 26,000.00 25,627 18,500 4,341,000 16
  Qatar * 25,000.00 25,244 25,244 1,808,000 38
  Brazil * 13,000.00 12,634 13,000 [11] 16,848 3,054,000 12
  Algeria *(OPEC) 12,000.00 12,200 12,200 1,363,000 24
  Guyana * .00 11,000[12] 117,000 200
  Namibia * .00 11,000[13] [14]
  Ecuador 8,300.00 8,273 8,000 475,000 48
  Norway * 8,100.00 6,376 8,000 2,056,000 11
  Angola *(OPEC) 7,800.00 8,384 12,700 1,162,000 18
  Azerbaijan * 7,000.00 7,000 7,000 709,000 30
  Suriname 06,500[15] 14,000 1,300
  Mexico * 5,800.00 6,537 10,800 [16] 9.700 1,972,000 8.1
  Oman * 5,400.00 5,373 5,300 980,000 15
  India * 4,600.00 4,495 5,680 [11] 4,409 886,000 14
  Vietnam * 4,400.00 4,400 4,000 203,000 59
  South Sudan 3,800.00 153,000 68
  Malaysia * 3,600.00 3,600 3,600 [11] 5,542 517,000 19
  Egypt * 3,300.00 4,400 3,500 592,000 15
  Yemen * 3,000.00 3,000 59,000 100
  Congo(OPEC) 2,900.00 1,600 275,000 29
  United Kingdom * 2,500.00 2,069 2,800 2,618 928,000 7.4
  Syria * 2,500.00 2,500 2,500 42,000 160
  Uganda * 2,500.00
  Argentina * 2,500.00 2,162 2,400 [17]16,000 701,000 9.8
  Indonesia * 2,500.00 3,310 3,600 3,497 858,000 8.0
  Australia * 2,400.00 3,985 4,000 4,002 253,000 26
  Colombia * 2,000.00 1,665 2,300 768,000 7
  Gabon *(OPEC) 2,000.00 2,000 2,000 181,000 30
  Chad * 1,500.00 1,500 96,000 43
  Turkey * 1,400.00 1350 120,000 10
  Sudan * 1,300.00 5,000 1,500 63,000 56
  Brunei * 1,100.00 1,100 1,100 93,000 32
  Equatorial Guinea *(OPEC) 1,100.00 1,100 144,000 21
  Peru * 900.00 1,400 [11] 1,489 126,000 20
  Kenya * .00 750
  Ghana * 700.00 160,000 10
  Romania * 600.00 600 84,000 20
  Turkmenistan * 600.00 600 600 224,000 7
  Uzbekistan * 600.00 594 600 37,000 40
  Pakistan * 500.00 [11] 236 105,000 10
  Italy * 500.00 600 [11] 595 146,000 9
  Denmark * 400.00 439 600 [11] 550 71,000 20
  Tunisia * 400.00 400 37,000 30
  Ukraine * 400.00 395 62,000 20
  Thailand * 300.00 400 461,000 2
  Trinidad and Tobago * 200.00 700 [11] 830 82,000 7
  Bolivia * 200.00 [11] 210 65,000 8
  Cameroon * 200.00 68,000 8
  Belarus * 200.00 198 34,000 20
  Bahrain * 200.00 189,000 3
  DR Congo 200.00 21,000 30
  Papua New Guinea * 200.00 [11] 158 37,000 10
  Albania * 200.00 16,000 30
  Chile * 200.00 16,000 30
  Niger * 200.00 13,000 40
  Spain * 200.00 77,000 7
  Myanmar * 100.00 8,200 30
  Philippines 100.00 15,000 20
  Netherlands 100.00 [11] 141 74,000 4
  Cuba * 100.00 [11] 124 37,000 7
  Germany * 100.00 [11] 229 116,000 2
  Poland * 100.00 [11] 151 37,000 7
  Ivory Coast * 100.00 29,000 9
  Somalia * .00 111,000[18]
  Guatemala 860 12,000 20
  Serbia * 770 17,000 12
  Croatia * 710 16,000 12
  France * 610 61,000 2.7
  Japan * 440 104,000 1.2
  New Zealand * 400 21,000 5
  Kyrgyzstan * 400 700 200
  Austria * 350 25,000 3.8
  Georgia * 350 300 300
  Bangladesh * 280 13,000 5.9
  Mauritania * 200
  Bulgaria * 150 6,100 6.7
  Czech Republic * 150 15.0 10,000 4
  South Africa * 150 15 105,000 0.39
  Israel * 120 [11] 12 5,800 5.7
  Hungary * 120 [11] 35 39,000 0.84
  Lithuania * 120 8,900 3.7
  Tajikistan * 120 300 100
  Greece * 100 15,000 2
  Slovakia * 9.00 6,400 4
  Benin * 8.00
  Belize * 6.00 1,700 10
  Taiwan * 2.00 25,000 0.2
  Barbados 1.00 500 5
  Jordan * 1.00 [11] 1 300 9
  Morocco * 0.6.00 160 10
  Ethiopia * 0.4.00
 World 1,703,000.00 1,535,773 1,750,600 93,148,000 50.06

* indicates "Oil reserves in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Energy in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2015
  2. ^ OPEC Statistical Bulletin, 2015.
  3. ^ World Factbook, US Central Intelligence Agency, 2015.
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