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Field Listing :: Oil - proved reserves

This entry is the stock of proved reserves of crude oil in barrels (bbl). Proved 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.
Country Comparison to the World

Country	Oil - proved reserves(bbl)


Afghanistan	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Albania	199.1 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Algeria	13.42 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


American Samoa	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Angola	13.5 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Antigua and Barbuda	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Argentina	2.386 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Armenia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Aruba	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Australia	3.318 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Austria	89 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Azerbaijan	7 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Bahamas, The	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Bahrain	124.6 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Bangladesh	28 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Barbados	1.79 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Belarus	198 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Belgium	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Belize	6.7 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Benin	8 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Bermuda	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Bhutan	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Bolivia	465 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Bosnia and Herzegovina	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Botswana	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Brazil	13.2 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


British Virgin Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Brunei	1.1 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Bulgaria	15 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Burkina Faso	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Burma	50 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Burundi	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Cambodia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Cameroon	200 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Canada	175.2 billion bbl note: includes oil sands (1 January 2010 est.)


Cape Verde	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Cayman Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Central African Republic	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Chad	1.5 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Chile	150 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


China	20.35 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Colombia	1.9 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Comoros	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Congo, Democratic Republic of the	180 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Congo, Republic of the	1.6 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Cook Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Costa Rica	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Cote d'Ivoire	250 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Croatia	73.35 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Cuba	178.9 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Cyprus	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Czech Republic	15 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Denmark	1.06 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Djibouti	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Dominica	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Dominican Republic	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Ecuador	6.542 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Egypt	4.3 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


El Salvador	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Equatorial Guinea	1.1 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Eritrea	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Estonia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Ethiopia	430,000 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


European Union	5.453 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Faroe Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Fiji	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Finland	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


France	101.2 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


French Polynesia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Gabon	2 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Gambia, The	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Gaza Strip	0 bbl


Georgia	35 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Germany	276 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Ghana	15 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Gibraltar	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Greece	10 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Greenland	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Grenada	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Guam	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Guatemala	83.07 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Guinea	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Guinea-Bissau	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Guyana	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Haiti	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Honduras	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Hong Kong	0 bbl (1 January 2011 est.)


Hungary	26.57 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Iceland	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


India	5.8 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Indonesia	4.05 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Iran	137.6 billion bbl based on Iranian claims note: Iran has about 10% of world reserves (1 January 2010 est.)


Iraq	115 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Ireland	0 bbl (1 January 2010)


Israel	1.94 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Italy	423.7 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Jamaica	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Japan	44.12 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Jordan	1 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Kazakhstan	30 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Kenya	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Kiribati	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Korea, North	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Korea, South	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Kosovo	NA bbl


Kuwait	104 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Kyrgyzstan	40 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Laos	0 bbl


Latvia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Lebanon	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Lesotho	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Liberia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Libya	47 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Lithuania	12 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Luxembourg	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Macau	0 bbl (1 January 2011 est.)


Macedonia	0 bbl (1 January 2011 est.)


Madagascar	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Malawi	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Malaysia	2.9 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Maldives	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Mali	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Malta	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Mauritania	100 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Mauritius	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Mexico	12.42 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Moldova	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Mongolia	NA bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Montenegro	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Montserrat	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Morocco	100 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Mozambique	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Namibia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Nauru	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Nepal	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Netherlands	100 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


New Caledonia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


New Zealand	60 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Nicaragua	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Niger	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Nigeria	37.5 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Niue	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Norway	6.68 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Oman	5.5 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Pakistan	436.2 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Panama	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Papua New Guinea	170 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Paraguay	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Peru	1.163 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Philippines	168 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Poland	96.38 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Portugal	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Puerto Rico	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Qatar	25.41 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Romania	600 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Russia	74.2 billion bbl (1 January 2009 est.)


Rwanda	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Saint Kitts and Nevis	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Saint Lucia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Samoa	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Sao Tome and Principe	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Saudi Arabia	264.6 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Senegal	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Serbia	77.5 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Seychelles	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Sierra Leone	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Singapore	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Slovakia	9 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Slovenia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Solomon Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Somalia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


South Africa	15 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Spain	150 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Sri Lanka	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Sudan	6.8 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Suriname	79.6 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Swaziland	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Sweden	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Switzerland	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Syria	2.5 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Taiwan	2.8 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Tajikistan	12 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Tanzania	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Thailand	430 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Timor-Leste	553.8 million bbl (1 January 2008)


Togo	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Tonga	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Trinidad and Tobago	728.3 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Tunisia	425 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Turkey	262.2 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Turkmenistan	600 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Turks and Caicos Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Uganda	1.5 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Ukraine	395 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


United Arab Emirates	97.8 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


United Kingdom	3.084 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


United States	19.12 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Uruguay	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Uzbekistan	594 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Vanuatu	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Venezuela	97.77 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Vietnam	4.7 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Virgin Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


West Bank	0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)


Western Sahara	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


World	1.388 trillion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Yemen	3.16 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Zambia	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Zimbabwe	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)

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