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12   Proven crude oil reserves as of 31.12.2004
  Thousand million barrels Thousand million tonnes Share of total in per cent R/P-ratio1
Total world 1 188.6  161.9  100.0 40.5
         
Total North America 61.0 8.0 5.1 11.8
USA 29.4 3.6 2.5 11.1
Canada 16.8 2.4 1.4 14.9
Mexico 14.8 2.0 1.2 10.6
         
Total Latin America  101.2 14.4 8.5 40.9
Argentina 2.7 0.4 0.2 9.7
Brazil 11.2 1.5 0.9 19.9
Colombia 1.5 0.2 0.1 7.6
Ecuador 5.1 0.7 0.4 25.8
Peru 0.9 0.1 0.1 27.3
Trinidad & Tobago 1.0 0.1 0.1 17.5
Venezuela 77.2 11.1 6.5 70.8
Others 1.5 0.2 0.1 26.9
         
Europe and Eurasia, total  139.2 19.0 11.7 21.6
Azerbaijan 7.0 1.0 0.6 60.2
Denmark 1.3 0.2 0.1 9.2
Italy 0.7 0.1 0.1 19.3
Kazakhstan 39.6 5.4 3.3 83.6
Norway 9.7 1.3 0.8 8.3
Romania 0.5 0.1 3 10.8
Russian Federation 72.3 9.9 6.1 21.3
Turkmenistan 0.5 0.1 3 7.4
United Kingdom 4.5 0.6 0.4 6.0
Uzbekistan 0.6 0.1 3 40.6
Others 2.5 0.3 0.2 13.8
         
Total Middle East  733.9  100.0 61.7 81.6
Iran  132.5 18.2 11.1 88.7
Iraq  115.0 15.5 9.7 2
Kuwait 99.0 13.6 8.4 2
Oman 5.6 0.8 0.5 19.4
Qatar 15.2 2.0 1.3 42.0
Saudi Arabia  262.7 36.1 22.1 67.8
Syria 3.2 0.4 0.3 16.1
United Arab Emirates 97.8 13.0 8.2 2
Yemen 2.9 0.4 0.2 18.2
Others 4 0.1 3 4.6
1  If the reserves remaining at the end of any year are divided by the production in that year, the result is the length of time that those remaining reserves would last if production were to continue at that level.
2  Over 100 years.
3  Less than 0,05 per cent.
4  Less than 0,05.
Source: BP Amoco statistical review of world energy.
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