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Field Listing :: Natural gas - proved reserves

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This entry is the stock of proved reserves of natural gas in cubic meters (cu m). Proved reserves are those quantities of natural gas, 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.
Country Comparison to the World

Country	Natural gas - proved reserves(cu m)


Afghanistan	49.55 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Albania	849.5 million cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Algeria	4.502 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


American Samoa	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Angola	269.8 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Antigua and Barbuda	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Argentina	441.7 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Armenia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Aruba	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Australia	849.5 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Austria	27.9 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Azerbaijan	2 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Bahamas, The	0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)


Bahrain	92.03 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Bangladesh	141.6 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Barbados	141.6 million cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Belarus	2.832 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Belgium	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Belize	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Benin	1.133 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Bermuda	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Bhutan	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Bolivia	750.4 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Bosnia and Herzegovina	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Botswana	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Brazil	365 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


British Virgin Islands	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Brunei	390.8 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Bulgaria	5.663 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Burkina Faso	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Burma	283.2 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Burundi	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Cambodia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Cameroon	135.1 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Canada	1.64 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Cape Verde	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Cayman Islands	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Central African Republic	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Chad	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Chile	97.97 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


China	2.46 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Colombia	105.9 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Comoros	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Congo, Democratic Republic of the	991.1 million cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Congo, Republic of the	90.61 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Cook Islands	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Costa Rica	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Cote d'Ivoire	28.32 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Croatia	36.44 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Cuba	70.79 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Cyprus	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Czech Republic	3.964 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Denmark	60 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Djibouti	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Dominica	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Dominican Republic	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Ecuador	8.919 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Egypt	2.19 trillion cu m (1 June 2009 est.)


El Salvador	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Equatorial Guinea	36.81 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Eritrea	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Estonia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Ethiopia	24.92 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


European Union	2.259 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)


Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Faroe Islands	0 cu m (1 January 2009)


Fiji	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Finland	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


France	6.937 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


French Polynesia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Gabon	28.32 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Gambia, The	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Georgia	8.495 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Germany	175.6 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Ghana	22.65 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Gibraltar	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Greece	1.982 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Greenland	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Grenada	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Guam	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Guatemala	2.96 billion cu m (1 January 2006 est.)


Guinea	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Guinea-Bissau	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Guyana	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Haiti	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Honduras	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Hong Kong	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Hungary	8.098 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Iceland	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


India	1.075 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Indonesia	3.001 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Iran	29.61 trillion cu m (1 January 2010 est.)


Iraq	3.17 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Ireland	9.911 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Israel	30.44 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Italy	94.15 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Jamaica	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Japan	20.9 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Jordan	6.031 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Kazakhstan	2.407 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Kenya	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Kiribati	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Korea, North	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Korea, South	50 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)


Kosovo	NA cu m


Kuwait	1.794 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Kyrgyzstan	5.663 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Laos	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Lebanon	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Lesotho	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Liberia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Libya	1.54 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Lithuania	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Luxembourg	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Macau	300,000 cu m (1 January 2008 est.)


Macedonia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Madagascar	0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)


Malawi	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Malaysia	2.35 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Maldives	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Mali	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Malta	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Mauritania	28.32 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Mauritius	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Mexico	372.7 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Moldova	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Mongolia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Montserrat	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Morocco	1.501 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Mozambique	127.4 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Namibia	62.29 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Nauru	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Nepal	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Netherlands	1.346 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Netherlands Antilles	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


New Caledonia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


New Zealand	33.98 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Nicaragua	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Niger	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Nigeria	5.215 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Niue	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Norway	2.313 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Oman	849.5 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Pakistan	885.3 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Panama	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Papua New Guinea	226.5 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Paraguay	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Peru	335.3 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Philippines	98.54 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Poland	164.8 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Portugal	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Puerto Rico	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Qatar	25.26 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Romania	63 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Russia	43.3 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Rwanda	56.63 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Saint Kitts and Nevis	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Saint Lucia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Samoa	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Sao Tome and Principe	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Saudi Arabia	7.319 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Senegal	NA cu m


Serbia	48.14 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Seychelles	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Sierra Leone	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Singapore	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Slovakia	14.16 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Slovenia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Solomon Islands	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Somalia	5.663 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


South Africa	27.16 million cu m (1 January 2006 est.)


Spain	2.548 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Sri Lanka	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Sudan	84.95 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Suriname	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Swaziland	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Sweden	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Switzerland	0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)


Syria	240.7 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Taiwan	6.229 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Tajikistan	5.663 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Tanzania	6.513 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Thailand	317.1 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Timor-Leste	200 billion cu m (1 January 2006 est.)


Togo	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Tonga	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Trinidad and Tobago	531.5 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Tunisia	65.13 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Turkey	6.83 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Turkmenistan	7.94 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Turks and Caicos Islands	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Uganda	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Ukraine	1.104 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


United Arab Emirates	6.071 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


United Kingdom	342.9 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


United States	6.731 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Uruguay	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Uzbekistan	1.841 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Vanuatu	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Venezuela	4.84 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Vietnam	610 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Virgin Islands	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Western Sahara	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


World	182.1 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Yemen	478.5 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Zambia	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)


Zimbabwe	0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

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