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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 es)


Albania	199.1 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Algeria	12.26 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


American Samoa	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Angola	15 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Antigua and Barbuda	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Argentina	2.82 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Armenia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Aruba	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Australia	1.426 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Austria	85 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Azerbaijan	7 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Bahamas, The	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Bahrain	107.2 million bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Bangladesh	28 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Barbados	2.26 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Belarus	198 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Belgium	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Belize	6.7 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Benin	8 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Bermuda	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Bhutan	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Bolivia	209.8 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Bosnia and Herzegovina	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Botswana	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Brazil	26 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


British Virgin Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Brunei	1.1 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Bulgaria	15 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Burkina Faso	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Burma	50 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Burundi	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Cambodia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Cameroon	200 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Canada	173.6 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Cape Verde	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Cayman Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Central African Republic	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Chad	1.5 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Chile	150 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


China	14.8 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Colombia	2.417 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Comoros	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


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


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


Cook Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Costa Rica	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


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


Croatia	2.96 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Cuba	181.5 million bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Curacao	0 bbl (1 January 2011 es)


Cyprus	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Czech Republic	15 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Denmark	900 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Djibouti	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Dominica	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Dominican Republic	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Ecuador	6.573 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Egypt	4.45 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


El Salvador	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Equatorial Guinea	1.1 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Eritrea	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Estonia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Ethiopia	430,000 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


European Union	5.385 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Faroe Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Fiji	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Finland	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


France	90.01 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


French Polynesia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Gabon	1.309 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Gambia, The	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Gaza Strip	0 bbl (1 January 2010 es)


Georgia	33.19 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Germany	276 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Ghana	660 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Gibraltar	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Greece	10 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Greenland	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Grenada	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Guam	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Guatemala	83.07 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Guinea	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Guinea-Bissau	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Guyana	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Haiti	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Honduras	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Hong Kong	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Hungary	31.72 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Iceland	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


India	8.935 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Indonesia	4 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Iran	151.2 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Iraq	143.1 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Ireland	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Israel	11.8 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Italy	523.2 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Jamaica	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Japan	44.12 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Jordan	1 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Kazakhstan	30 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Kenya	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Kiribati	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Korea, North	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Korea, South	NA bbl


Kosovo	NA bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Kuwait	101.5 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Kyrgyzstan	40 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Laos	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Latvia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Lebanon	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Lesotho	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Liberia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Libya	48.08 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Lithuania	12 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Luxembourg	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Macau	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Macedonia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Madagascar	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Malawi	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Malaysia	2.9 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Maldives	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Mali	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Malta	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Mauritania	20 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Mauritius	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Mexico	12.17 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Moldova	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Mongolia	NA bbl


Montenegro	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Montserrat	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Morocco	100 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Mozambique	0 bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Namibia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Nauru	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Nepal	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Netherlands	287.4 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


New Caledonia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


New Zealand	96.1 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Nicaragua	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Niger	NA bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Nigeria	38.5 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Niue	0 bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Norway	5.32 billion bbl (1 January 2010 es)


Oman	4.902 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Pakistan	480.9 million bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Panama	0 bbl (1 January 2010 es)


Papua New Guinea	170 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Paraguay	0 bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Peru	586.1 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Philippines	138.5 million bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Poland	155 million bbl (1 January 2010 es)


Portugal	NA bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Puerto Rico	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Qatar	25.57 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Romania	600 million bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Russia	60 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Rwanda	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


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


Saint Kitts and Nevis	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Saint Lucia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


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


Samoa	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Sao Tome and Principe	0 bbl (1 January 2010 es)


Saudi Arabia	264.6 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Senegal	0 bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Serbia	77.5 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Seychelles	0 bbl (1 January 2010 es)


Sierra Leone	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Singapore	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Slovakia	9 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Slovenia	NA bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Solomon Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Somalia	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


South Africa	15 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Spain	150 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Sri Lanka	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Sudan	5 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Suriname	72 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Swaziland	0 bbl (1 January 2010 es)


Sweden	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Switzerland	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Syria	2.183 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Taiwan	2.8 million bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Tajikistan	12 million bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Tanzania	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Thailand	442 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Timor-Leste	553.8 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Togo	0 bbl (1 January 2010 es)


Tokelau	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Tonga	0 bbl (1 January 2010 es)


Trinidad and Tobago	728.3 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Tunisia	425 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Turkey	270.4 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Turkmenistan	600 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Turks and Caicos Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Uganda	1 billion bbl (1 January 2010 es)


Ukraine	395 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


United Arab Emirates	97.8 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


United Kingdom	2.827 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


United States	20.68 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Uruguay	0 bbl (1 January 2009 es)


Uzbekistan	594 million bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Vanuatu	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Venezuela	209.4 billion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Vietnam	4.7 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Virgin Islands	0 bbl (1 January 2013 es)


West Bank	0 bbl (1 January 2009 es)


Western Sahara	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)


World	1.532 trillion bbl (1 January 2012 es)


Yemen	2.88 billion bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Zambia	0 bbl (1 January 2013 es)


Zimbabwe	0 bbl (1 January 2012 es)

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