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CHAPTER TWO
Developments of Energy Resourrces
Figure 2-8
World Natural Gas Reserves, 2012
At year end (%)
2-1-2 International Groups and other Countries:
Oil estimates increased inmany countries in 2012, like the UK, where
reserves were estimated at more than 3 billion barrels comparing to 2.8
billion barrels in 2011. Norway reserves were increased marginally by
0.9% to 5.37 billion barrels. Considerable increasing in proved reserves
estimates was recorded in CIS where Russian Federation reserves
increased by 33.3% from 60 billion barrels in 2011 to 80 billion barrels
in 2012. Reserves in China increased by 5.2% from 20.35 billion barrels
in 2011, to 25.6 billion barrels in 2012.
On the other hand, estimates have shown a decline in many
countries reserves like Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Hungary, Albania,
Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, Austria, Pakistan,
New Zealand and others.
Table (2-4)
.
2-2 Natural Gas Reserves:
World natural gas reserves were estimated at more than 192.36
trillion cubic meters in 2012, representing a slight increase from 2011
estimations of 191 trillion cubic meters.
Figure (2-8)
and
Table (2-5)
.
