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Field Listing :: Crude 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	Crude oil - proved reserves(bbl)


Afghanistan	87 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Albania	199.1 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Algeria	12.26 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


American Samoa	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Angola	15 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Antigua and Barbuda	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Argentina	2.82 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Armenia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Aruba	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Australia	1.426 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Austria	50 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Azerbaijan	7 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Bahamas, The	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Bahrain	107.2 million bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Bangladesh	28 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Barbados	2.26 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Belarus	198 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Belgium	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Belize	6.7 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Benin	8 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Bermuda	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Bhutan	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Bolivia	209.8 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Bosnia and Herzegovina	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Botswana	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Brazil	26 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


British Virgin Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Brunei	1.1 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Bulgaria	15 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Burkina Faso	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Burma	50 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Burundi	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Cambodia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Cameroon	200 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Canada	173.6 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Cape Verde	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Cayman Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Central African Republic	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Chad	1.5 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Chile	150 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


China	14.7 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Colombia	2.417 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Comoros	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Congo, Democratic Republic of the	180 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Congo, Republic of the	1.6 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Cook Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Costa Rica	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Cote d'Ivoire	250 million bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Croatia	71 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Cuba	181.5 million bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Curacao	0 bbl (1 January 2011 est.)


Cyprus	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Czech Republic	15 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Denmark	900 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Djibouti	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Dominica	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Dominican Republic	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Ecuador	6.573 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Egypt	4.45 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


El Salvador	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Equatorial Guinea	1.1 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Eritrea	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Estonia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Ethiopia	430,000 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


European Union	5.337 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Faroe Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Fiji	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Finland	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


France	90.01 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


French Polynesia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Gabon	1.309 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Gambia, The	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Gaza Strip	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Georgia	35 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Germany	276 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Ghana	660 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Gibraltar	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Greece	10 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Greenland	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Grenada	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Guam	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Guatemala	83.07 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Guinea	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Guinea-Bissau	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Guyana	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Haiti	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Honduras	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Hong Kong	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Hungary	31.72 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Iceland	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


India	8.935 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Indonesia	4 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Iran	151.2 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Iraq	143.1 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Ireland	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Israel	11.8 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Italy	523.2 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Jamaica	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Japan	44.12 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Jordan	1 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Kazakhstan	30 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Kenya	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Kiribati	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Korea, North	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Korea, South	NA bbl


Kosovo	NA bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Kuwait	101.5 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Kyrgyzstan	40 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Laos	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Latvia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Lebanon	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Lesotho	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Liberia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Libya	48.08 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Lithuania	12 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Luxembourg	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Macau	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Macedonia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Madagascar	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Malawi	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Malaysia	2.9 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Maldives	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Mali	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Malta	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Mauritania	20 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Mauritius	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Mexico	12.17 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Moldova	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Mongolia	NA bbl


Montenegro	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Montserrat	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Morocco	100 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Mozambique	0 bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Namibia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Nauru	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Nepal	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Netherlands	287.4 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


New Caledonia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


New Zealand	96.1 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Nicaragua	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Niger	NA bbl


Nigeria	38.5 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Niue	0 bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Norway	5.32 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Oman	4.902 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Pakistan	480.9 million bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Panama	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Papua New Guinea	170 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Paraguay	0 bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Peru	586.1 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Philippines	138.5 million bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Poland	155 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Portugal	NA bbl


Puerto Rico	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Qatar	25.57 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Romania	600 million bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Russia	60 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Rwanda	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Saint Kitts and Nevis	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Saint Lucia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Samoa	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


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


Saudi Arabia	264.6 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Senegal	0 bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Serbia	77.5 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Seychelles	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Sierra Leone	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Singapore	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Slovakia	9 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Slovenia	NA bbl


Solomon Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Somalia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


South Africa	15 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Spain	150 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Sri Lanka	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Sudan	5 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Suriname	72 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Swaziland	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Sweden	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Switzerland	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Syria	2.183 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Taiwan	2.8 million bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Tajikistan	12 million bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Tanzania	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Thailand	442 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Timor-Leste	553.8 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Togo	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Tokelau	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Tonga	0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Trinidad and Tobago	728.3 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Tunisia	425 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Turkey	270.4 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Turkmenistan	600 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Turks and Caicos Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Uganda	1 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)


Ukraine	395 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


United Arab Emirates	97.8 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


United Kingdom	2.827 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


United States	20.68 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Uruguay	0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)


Uzbekistan	594 million bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Vanuatu	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Venezuela	209.4 billion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Vietnam	4.7 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Virgin Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


West Bank	0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)


Western Sahara	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


World	1.532 trillion bbl (1 January 2012 est.)


Yemen	2.88 billion bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Zambia	0 bbl (1 January 2013 est.)


Zimbabwe	0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)

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