Countries by Proven oil reserves

Jan 7, 2013, 16:23 IST

This a list of countries by proven oil reserves. 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	Reserves (MMbbl)
1	Venezuela	211,169 - 297,571
2	Saudi Arabia	265,405 - 267,017
3	Canada	173,625 - 175,200
4	Iran	151,167 - 154,580
5	Iraq	115,350 - 143,103
6	Kuwait	103,998 - 111,500
7	United Arab Emirates	97,800
8	Russia	60,003 - 116,000
9	Libya	47,102 - 48,014
10	Kazakhstan	30,002 - 39,800
11	Nigeria	37,200
12	Qatar	25,382
13	United States	20,682
14	China	20,350
15	Brazil	13,986
16	Mexico	13,800
17	Algeria	12,200
18	Angola	10,470,
19	India	9,043
20	Ecuador	8,235
21	Azerbaijan	7,000
22	Norway	5,321 - 6,700
23	Sudan	6,700
24	Malaysia	5,800
25	Oman	5,500
26	Ghana	5,000
27	Egypt	4,500
28	Vietnam	4,400
29	Australia	4,158
30	Indonesia	3,990 - 4,118
31	Gabon	3,700
32	United Kingdom	2,800
33	Yemen	2,700
34	Argentina	2,504
35	Syria	2,500
36	Colombia	2,300
37	Congo, Republic of the	1,940
38	Equatorial Guinea	1,705
39	Chad	1,500
40	Italy	520 - 1,378
41	Peru	1,240
42	Brunei	1,100
43	Uganda	1,000
44	Denmark	900
45	Trinidad and Tobago	830
46	Turkmenistan	600
47	Romania	600
48	Uzbekistan	594
49	Timor-Leste	554
50	Bolivia	465
51	Thailand	442
52	Tunisia	425
53	Ukraine	395
54	Pakistan	313
55	Netherlands	310
56	Germany	276
57	Turkey	262
58	Cameroon	200
59	Albania	199
60	Belarus	198
61	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	180
62	Cuba	179
63	Papua New Guinea	170
64	Philippines	163
65	Chile	150
66	Spain	150
67	Bahrain	125
68	France	101
69	Cote d'Ivoire	100
70	Mauritania	100
71	Poland	96
72	Austria	89
73	Guatemala	83
74	Suriname	79
75	Serbia	77
76	Croatia	66
77	New Zealand	60
78	Myanmar	50
79	Japan	44
80	Kyrgyzstan	40
81	Georgia	35
82	Bangladesh	28
83	Hungary	26
84	Bulgaria	15
85	South Africa	15
86	Czech Republic	15
87	Lithuania	12
88	Tajikistan	12
89	Greece	10
90	Slovakia	9
91	Benin	8
92	Belize	7
93	Taiwan	2
94	Israel	2
95	Barbados	2
96	Jordan	1
97	Morocco	0.7
98	Ethiopia	0.4