Statistics Norway

27   Proven natural gas reserves as of 31.12.2004
  Trillion
cubic metres
Trillion
cubic feet
Share of total
in per cent
R/P - ratio1
Total World  179.5 6 337.4  100.0 66.7
         
Total North America 7.3  258.3 4.1 9.6
USA 5.3  186.9 2.9 9.8
Canada 1.6 56.6 0.9 8.8
Mexico 0.4 14.9 0.2 11.3
         
Total Latin America 7.1  250.6 4.0 55.0
Argentina 0.6 21.4 0.3 13.5
Bolivia 0.9 31.4 0.5 2
Brazil 0.3 11.5 0.2 29.5
Colombia 0.1 3.9 0.1 17.3
Peru 0.3 8.7 0.1 2
Trinidad & Tobago 0.5 18.8 0.3 19.2
Venezuela 4.2  148.9 2.4 2
Others 0.2 6.0 0.1 2
         
Total Europe and Eurasia 64.0 2 259.7 35.7 60.9
Azerbaijan 1.4 48.4 0.8 2
Denmark 0.1 3.1 3 9.3
Germany 0.2 7.0 0.1 12.1
Italy 0.2 5.9 0.1 12.8
Kazakhstan 3.0  105.9 1.7 2
The Netherlands 1.5 52.7 0.8 21.7
Norway 2.4 84.2 1.3 30.4
Poland 0.1 4.1 0.1 26.4
Romania 0.3 10.4 0.2 22.3
Russia 48.0 1 694.4 26.7 81.5
Turkmenistan 2.9  102.4 1.6 53.1
Ukraine 1.1 39.2 0.6 60.6
United Kingdom 0.6 20.8 0.3 6.1
Uzbekistan 1.9 65.7 1.0 33.3
Others 0.5 15.7 0.2 40.9
         
Total Middle East 72.8 2 570.8 40.6 2
Bahrain 0.1 3.2 0.1 9.2
Iran 27.5  970.8 15.3 2
Iraq 3.2  111.9 1.8 2
Kuwait 1.6 55.5 0.9 2
Oman 1.0 35.1 0.6 56.5
Qatar 25.8  910.1 14.4 2
Saudi Arabia 6.8  238.4 3.8 2
Syria 0.4 13.1 0.2 72.0
United Arab Emirates 6.1  213.9 3.4 2
Yemen 0.5 16.9 0.3 2
Others 0.1 1.9 3 31.7
         
Total Africa 14.1  496.4 7.8 96.9
Algeria 4.6  160.4 2.5 55.4
Egypt 1.9 65.5 1.0 69.1
Libya 1.5 52.6 0.8 2
Nigeria 5.0  176.4 2.8 2
Others 1.2 41.5 0.7 2
         
Total Asia and Pacific 14.2  501.5 7.9 43.9
Australia 2.5 86.9 1.4 69.9
Bangladesh 0.4 15.4 0.2 33.0
Brunei 0.3 12.1 0.2 28.3
China 2.2 78.7 1.2 54.7
India 0.9 32.6 0.5 31.3
Indonesia 2.6 90.3 1.4 34.9
Malaysia 2.5 87.0 1.4 45.7
Myanmar 0.5 18.5 0.3 71.0
Pakistan 0.8 28.2 0.4 34.4
Papua New Guinea 0.4 15.1 0.2 2
Thailand 0.4 15.1 0.2 21.1
Vietnam 0.2 8.3 0.1 56.5
Others 0.4 13.4 0.2 38.4
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.
Source: BP Amoco statistical review of world energy.
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