Talk:List of countries by natural gas proven reserves

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when updating this list, it´d be nice to use same basic measurement as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_consumption -- therefore itd be much easier comparing reserves vs current consumption and expected timeframe until depletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.220.92.14 (talk) 07:28, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries. Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 12:32, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Reserve Life in Table

I haven't been able to include this revised table since the last column conflicts with the earlier table. I changed the last column from date (they're all very recent estimates of gas reserves, so this column is not useful or interesting), to reserve life and calculated the reserve life for the top 25.

There is also no point in including every country in the world which has zero gas reserves.

Here is the table as I would include it.

This is a list of countries by natural gas proven reserves mostly based on The World Factbook.

Following link on wikipedia shows that the recent discoveries in the last decade at KG Basin alone in India, puts it at top 20 countries. The KG Basin is in the Andhra Pradesh state of India. [1]

The Wikipedia article you cite, KG basin, is at fault for not pointing out that the quoted numbers are possible reserves, perhaps even probable reserves, but are not proven reserves. As I look into the sources for that article, I see a lot of "may be" and "estimated," statements, rather than the phrase "proven reserves." This article is only about proven reserves. Plazak (talk) 19:12, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Rank	Country/Region	Natural gas proven reserves (m³)	Reserve Life (years)
—	World	180,650,000,000,000	60
1	Russia	43,300,000,000,000	66
2	Iran	29,600,000,000,000	264
3	Algeria	28,080,000,000,000	326
4	Qatar	25,260,000,000,000	325
5	Turkmenistan	7,940,000,000,000	232
6	Saudi Arabia	7,319,000,000,000	96
7	United States	6,731,000,000,000	12
8	United Arab Emirates	6,071,000,000,000	120
9	Nigeria	5,215,000,000,000	152
10	Venezuela	4,840,000,000,000	204
11	Iraq	3,170,000,000,000	1600
12	Indonesia	3,001,000,000,000	42
13	China	2,460,000,000,000	36
14	Kazakhstan	2,407,000,000,000	67
15	Malaysia	2,350,000,000,000	42
16	Norway	2,313,000,000,000	23
—	European Union	2,259,000,000,000	11
17	Azerbaijan	2,000,000,000,000	87
18	Uzbekistan	1,841,000,000,000	27
19	Kuwait	1,794,000,000,000	138
20	Egypt	1,656,000,000,000	26
21	Canada	1,640,000,000,000	9
22	Libya	1,540,000,000,000	96
23	Netherlands	1,346,000,000,000	17
24	Ukraine	1,104,000,000,000	52
25	India	1,075,000,000,000	33

The ratio of proved reserves to production is certainly an interesting and useful statistic, but labeling it as "reserve life" is fallacious. Plazak (talk) 12:56, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

References

"% of total" column seems to be wrong

Please look carefully.

100% - 300.000 (first line) 0,19% - 364 (36th line)

Actually, 364 should be 0,12%. This error seems to occur in several lines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbbinder (talk • contribs) 16:58, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Israel gas proven reserves

With the information in the article economy of Israel (natural gas) and with the use of this http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume/cubic-feet-to-cubic-meters.htm the proven Israel gas reserves is 930,000,000,000+ of cubic meters.

Sorry, I don't see in the wiki article the number you refer to. Could you be more explicit as to where you get it? US EIA website [2] gives 9.56 tcf = 271 billion m3. Plazak (talk) 12:19, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Also, Cyprus 11,887,200,000 m^3 http://famagusta-gazette.com/natural-gas-reserves-in-cyprus-estimated-at-tcf-p20569-69.htm

The Cyprus article says "estimated", not "proven". Plazak (talk) 12:19, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Sources

I'm a little confused why we're using a bunch of random sources when the information is all available on the CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2179rank.html

Would it make sense to change it over to these statistics for consistency's sake? AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 20:29, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Iran has largest gas reserves in world according to 2013 BP report

(Reuters) - Oil major BP (BP.L) cut its global natural gas reserves estimate for the first time in decades, revising Russia's still classified holdings down sharply and putting Iran at the top of the world league table.

In its Statistical Review of World Energy published on Wednesday, BP put global proven gas reserves at 187.3 trillion cubic meters as of the end of 2012, enough for about 56 years of global production at current rates.

FINANCIAL COMMENTARIES AND GUIDESADVERTISEMENT POWERED BY How individuals can invest in commercial real estate Download Free Here Dubai still reaches for the sky, brought to you by HSBC Find out more BP's annual review of energy statistics, first published in 1951, is considered an industry benchmark. Last year's report put gas reserves at 208.4 trillion cubic meters. The cut of 21 trillion equals roughly seven years of global gas use.

Russia, the world's biggest gas reserves holder for many years, was responsible for the bulk of the reduction, with its reserves estimate downgraded to 32.9 trillion from 44.6 trillion in last year's report.

BP's chief economist, Christof Ruhl, said at a news conference the company decided this year to adjust its estimates for the former Soviet Union, including Russia, where data on reserves is classified.

"Traditionally countries of the former Soviet Union had different criteria than used elsewhere. So we used a conversion factor to convert that from those countries where we don't get direct data," Ruhl said.

"In some countries, reserves are still a state secret, so we have to rely on these data," he added.

BP also cut its estimate of gas reserves in the United States, where the energy industry has been transformed by shale oil and gas, due to lower prices and reduced drilling. U.S. reserves ended 2012 at 8.5 trillion cubic meters, down 0.3 trillion from 2011.

The downgrade left Iran at the top of the table of the world's largest gas reserves holders for the first time in decades, with its broadly unchanged reserves of 33.6 trillion.

Russia remains a much larger gas producer than Iran, which is unable to exploit the full potential of its resources, because U.S. and European trade sanctions over its nuclear program have stalled energy projects.

BP has had a bumpy experience in Russia over the past decade. TNK-BP, its venture with Russian billionaires, generated billions of dollars in dividends for BP but also led to clashes with the Kremlin.

The company sold out of the venture this year to become a major shareholder in state-controlled champion Rosneft (ROSN.MM). The latter is pursuing an aggressive gas strategy to rival state-controlled Gazprom (GAZP.MM), Russia's gas export monopoly and holder of most of its gas reserves.

In its review, BP also steeply downgraded Turkmenistan's reserves to 17.5 trillion from 24.3 trillion and cut its reserves estimates for Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.

OIL ESTIMATES

On the oil side, BP estimated global proven oil reserves at 1,669 billion barrels at the end of 2012, up slightly from 1,654 billion at the end of 2011 and enough to maintain current global production levels for 53 years.

In its report a year earlier, BP had revised global oil reserves sharply higher, citing new technology that made heavy crude grades in Canada and Venezuela economically profitable to extract.

Its figure for U.S. oil reserves rose to 35 billion barrels from 31 billion last year, more than 2 percent of global reserves.

A report from the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration on Monday pointed to the dramatic impact of shale on world energy. Shale deposits will boost total world crude resources by 11 percent, it said.

BP upgraded reserves for both Iran and Iraq by several billion barrels and kept them at their No.3 and 4 global spots, respectively. Venezuela and Saudi Arabia kept their first and second places with no major revisions over the year.

Ecuador, Norway and China were included in upward reserves revisions, while estimates were downgraded for South Sudan, Malaysia, Angola and Gabon.

(Reporting by Alex Lawler and Dmitry Zhdannikov; editing by Jane Baird) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.84.68.252 (talk) 06:41, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

There are four sources I know of, all free-accessible on the internet, which maintain updated lists of natural gas proven reserves by country:

CIA

US Energy Information Administration

BP

OPEC

They all seem to be reliable sources. I know of no good reason to prefer any of these over the others, except that some have more complete listings of countries; but they all cover the major gas-producing nations. Altho they are all usually pretty close, sometimes the above sources seriously disagree on proven reserves. For instance, BP rates Russian proven reserves at 32.9 tcm, while the other three have Russian proven reserves much higher, in the range of 47.6 to 48.7 tcm. Perhaps we should use the range of all four sources, and rank by the median value. Any thoughts? Plazak (talk) 20:59, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Iran #1 with gas reserves

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/10/bp-oil-stats-idUSL5N0YW2E620150610

Russia long dominated the world's gas reserves league table before ceding top spot to Iran recently after BP put Iranian gas reserves estimates at 34 trillion cubic metres (tcm) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.143.139 (talk) 19:33, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Outdated Reserves

A number of entries list the reserves back in 2010. There is no excuse for this when more recent reserve numbers are available. Almost all countries have 2014 or 2015 reserve data available. One editor has repeatedly substituted older reserve numbers for Bolivia, apparently because the older reserves give Bolivia a higher ranking. This sort of thing misinforms the reader. Plazak (talk) 04:38, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Current israel gas reserves

Data in the tables seems to refer only to the older Tamar gas field

The later find Leviathan gas field, has an added 470 BCM which is ignored Jazi Zilber (talk) 18:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

The Leviathan article refers to 470 BCM as the P2 reserves, not the P1, which is the subject of this article. Plazak (talk) 13:53, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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Cyprus

Not Cyprus listed in here? ..Triangle with Greece and IsraelInformationskampagne (talk) 02:24, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

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China

Why is China so low on the list? The CIA World Factbook lists China in the Top 10 on their table. 120.156.149.173 (talk) 15:57, 4 March 2018 (UTC)