SOURCE
CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
DEFINITION
According to Web definitions the term refers to the total amount of petroleum (oil) discovered in any given oil field or nation. Thus it can be said that Kuwait has xxxx millions of barrels (mb) of oil in the ground. However, the exact amount can never be known, simply because of the difficulty in sensing or "seeing" beneath the surface of the Earth. The term Proven Reserve or PR refers to an amount of oil that is generally accepted by geologists to be the actual amount of petroleum in the ground.
Energy Statistics > Oil reserves (most recent) by country
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| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
(top to bottom)
|
| #1 | Saudi Arabia: | 262,700,000,000 barrels | |
| #2 | Canada: | 178,900,000,000 barrels | |
| #3 | Iran: | 133,300,000,000 barrels | |
| #4 | Iraq: | 112,500,000,000 barrels | |
| #5 | United Arab Emirates: | 97,800,000,000 barrels | |
| #6 | Kuwait: | 96,500,000,000 barrels | |
| #7 | Venezuela: | 75,590,000,000 barrels | |
| #8 | Russia: | 69,000,000,000 barrels | |
| #9 | Libya: | 40,000,000,000 barrels | |
| #10 | Nigeria: | 36,000,000,000 barrels | |
| #11 | Mexico: | 33,310,000,000 barrels | |
| #12 | Kazakhstan: | 26,000,000,000 barrels | |
| #13 | Angola: | 25,000,000,000 barrels | |
| #14 | United States: | 22,450,000,000 barrels | |
| #15 | China: | 18,260,000,000 barrels | |
| #16 | Qatar: | 16,000,000,000 barrels | |
| #17 | Brazil: | 15,120,000,000 barrels | |
| #18 | Algeria: | 12,460,000,000 barrels | |
| #19 | Norway: | 9,859,000,000 barrels | |
| #20 | Oman: | 6,100,000,000 barrels | |
| #21 | India: | 5,700,000,000 barrels | |
| #22 | Indonesia: | 4,600,000,000 barrels | |
| #23 | Ecuador: | 4,512,000,000 barrels | |
| #24 | United Kingdom: | 4,500,000,000 barrels | |
| #25 | Yemen: | 4,370,000,000 barrels | |
| #26 | Australia: | 3,664,000,000 barrels | |
| #27 | Malaysia: | 3,100,000,000 barrels | |
| #28 | Argentina: | 2,950,000,000 barrels | |
| #29 | Egypt: | 2,700,000,000 barrels | |
| #30 | Syria: | 2,500,000,000 barrels | |
| #31 | Gabon: | 1,921,000,000 barrels | |
| #32 | Tunisia: | 1,700,000,000 barrels | |
| #33 | Sudan: | 1,600,000,000 barrels | |
| #34 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the: | 1,538,000,000 barrels | |
| #35 | Colombia: | 1,492,000,000 barrels | |
| #36 | Brunei: | 1,255,000,000 barrels | |
| #37 | Denmark: | 1,230,000,000 barrels | |
| #38 | Romania: | 1,055,000,000 barrels | |
| #39 | Mauritania: | 1,000,000,000 barrels | |
| #40 | Burma: | 1,000,000,000 barrels | |
| #41 | Trinidad and Tobago: | 990,000,000 barrels | |
| #42 | Vietnam: | 600,000,000 barrels | |
| #43 | Uzbekistan: | 600,000,000 barrels | |
| #44 | Azerbaijan: | 589,000,000 barrels | |
| #45 | Italy: | 586,600,000 barrels | |
| #46 | Thailand: | 583,000,000 barrels | |
| #47 | Equatorial Guinea: | 563,500,000 barrels | |
| #48 | Cuba: | 532,000,000 barrels | |
| #49 | Bolivia: | 458,800,000 barrels | |
| #50 | Germany: | 395,800,000 barrels | |
| #51 | Ukraine: | 395,000,000 barrels | |
| #52 | Peru: | 370,000,000 barrels | |
| #53 | Pakistan: | 341,800,000 barrels | |
| #54 | Turkey: | 288,400,000 barrels | |
| #55 | Turkmenistan: | 273,000,000 barrels | |
| #56 | Guatemala: | 263,000,000 barrels | |
| #57 | Côte d'Ivoire: | 220,000,000 barrels | |
| #58 | Albania: | 185,500,000 barrels | |
| #59 | Papua New Guinea: | 170,000,000 barrels | |
| #60 | Philippines: | 152,000,000 barrels | |
| #61 | Suriname: | 150,000,000 barrels | |
| #62 | Chile: | 150,000,000 barrels | |
| #63 | France: | 144,300,000 barrels | |
| #64 | Poland: | 142,400,000 barrels | |
| #65 | Bahrain: | 124,000,000 barrels | |
| #66 | Hungary: | 110,700,000 barrels | |
| #67 | Morocco: | 100,000,000 barrels | |
| #68 | Croatia: | 93,600,000 barrels | |
| #69 | Congo, Republic of the: | 93,500,000 barrels | |
| #70 | New Zealand: | 89,620,000 barrels | |
| #71 | Netherlands: | 88,060,000 barrels | |
| #72 | Cameroon: | 85,000,000 barrels | |
| #73 | Austria: | 84,300,000 barrels | |
| #74 | Serbia and Montenegro: | 38,750,000 barrels | |
| #75 | Japan: | 29,290,000 barrels | |
| #76 | Bangladesh: | 28,450,000 barrels | |
| #77 | Czech Republic: | 17,250,000 barrels | |
| #78 | Spain: | 10,500,000 barrels | |
| #79 | Ghana: | 8,255,000 barrels | |
| #80 | Bulgaria: | 8,100,000 barrels | |
| #81 | South Africa: | 7,840,000 barrels | |
| #82 | Slovakia: | 4,500,000 barrels | |
| #83 | Greece: | 4,500,000 barrels | |
| #84 | Benin: | 4,105,000 barrels | |
| #85 | Taiwan: | 2,900,000 barrels | |
| #86 | Israel: | 1,920,000 barrels | |
| #87 | Barbados: | 1,254,000 barrels | |
| #88 | Jordan: | 445,000 barrels | |
| #89 | Ethiopia: | 214,000 barrels | |
| #90 | Madagascar: | 0 barrels | |
| #91 | Tanzania: | 0 barrels | |
| #92 | Rwanda: | 0 barrels | |
| #93 | Mozambique: | 0 barrels | |
| #94 | Afghanistan: | 0 barrels | |
| #95 | Somalia: | 0 barrels | |
| #96 | Ireland: | 0 barrels | |
| #97 | Namibia: | 0 barrels | |
| |
Total: |
1,349,417,153,000 barrels |
| |
Weighted average: |
13,911,517,041.2 barrels |
|
DEFINITION: According to Web definitions the term refers to the total amount of petroleum (oil) discovered in any given oil field or nation. Thus it can be said that Kuwait has xxxx millions of barrels (mb) of oil in the ground. However, the exact amount can never be known, simply because of the difficulty in sensing or "seeing" beneath the surface of the Earth. The term Proven Reserve or PR refers to an amount of oil that is generally accepted by geologists to be the actual amount of petroleum in the ground.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
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