The politicians and activists of “green movement” like to speak about possibility of renewable sources of energy. Buy hydrocarbon fuel still remains the most popular and claimed one in the world.
It is not accidental that every year tens of billions dollars are spent for search, exploration and production of oil and natural gas and the world biggest hydrocarbon makers, such as Saudi Arabia, USA, Canada and Kuwait, are among the richest countries in the world. Business Insider made a list of 18 countries with the biggest resources of oil and natural gas using “Annual Statistical Review of World Energy.”
Table of top 18 countries with biggest hydrocarbon resources
Countries | Total estimate in today's prices (trillion USD) | Confirmed resources | ||
Oil (billion barrels) | Gas (trillion cub.m.) | |||
1 | Russia | 40.7 | 87.0 | 32.9 |
2 | Iran | 35.3 | 157.0 | 33.6 |
3 | Venezuela | 34.9 | 297.6 | 5.56 |
4 | Saudi Arabia | 33.0 | 265.9 | 8.5 |
5 | USA | 28.5 | 35.0 | 8.5 |
6 | Canada | 20.2 | 173.9 | 1.98 |
7 | Iraq | 18.0 | 150.0 | 3.59 |
8 | Qatar | 16.4 | 23.9 | 25.06 |
9 | UAE | 13.8 | 97.8 | 6.09 |
10 | China | 13.2 | 17.3 | 3.1 |
11 | Kuwait | 11.8 | 101.5 | 1.78 |
12 | Turkmenistan | 9.7 | 0.6 | 17.5 |
13 | Australia | 3.9 | 3.76 | |
14 | Nigeria | 6.8 | 37.2 | 5.15 |
15 | Kazakhstan | 6.8 | 30.0 | 1.29 |
16 | India | 6.5 | 5.7 | 1.33 |
17 | Libya | 6.0 | 48.0 | 1.55 |
18 | Algeria | 3.4 | 12.2 | 4.5 |
- Confirmed coal resources of India - 60.6 million tons - Confirmed coal resources of Australia - 76.4 million tons - Confirmed coal resources of USA - 237.2 million tons - Confirmed coal resources of Russia - 157.0 million tons | ||||
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