Today's Trends: Middle East Remains Home to Most Proven Reserves

Akshat Tarate  |  July 25, 2010

I agree with Steven for pointing out that the reserves have doubled but what we are not looking into are that these figures are estimated and not the realistic figures we see always in out minds. Better Tech leads to newer and deeper oilfield deposits and hence these figures keep on changing!!! :)

Steve  |  July 20, 2010

What about the Bakken in North Dakota?

sundar  |  July 20, 2010

African discoveries are encouraging the proven reserves day by day.Is it?

Steven  |  July 19, 2010

I know this is simple maths....but say we use 50mbpd....over 20 years thats 365000mbarrels...or 365billion barrels consumed...out of 1006billion. So net thats 641 left, yet we now have doubled our reserves to 1333 billion barrels.... So despite using 1/3rd of the known reserves over 20 years the reserves number has actually doubled....... Yet the peak of discoveries was in 1964(?)....since 1989 we have hardly discovered any oil, last I read we were finding 1 barrel for 3 used... and BP is drilling at the limits of technology.... Mexico is great example of what might be more truthful....interesting that the real proven reserves are not really known....yet Mexicos is. So I suspect the real number is somewhere better than mexico but way worse than BPs. Add in that taking good sweet crude oil ie simple to get out of the ground low sulphur we see a EROEI ratio of 30:1. Heavy oil sands, is what 5:1? So to me these numbers look like porkies... I man even if hvy oil sands is a goer, ignoring AGW and the environmental disaster(s) we get 5 barrels out for every 1 put in v 30:1 for sweet crude.....or if you want 30:1 v 30:6....so instead of 29 net barrels of energy we get 24 barrels... Yet wind, tide, geo thermal 14:1 Will heavy oil sands ever be practical? looks not... So I have to ask, is the realistic? regards

obaidur rahman  |  July 19, 2010

Oil reserve in the Middle east is still ahead of all. It will be same with little up & down. Its production cost per barrel is very low. Ghaur field in Saudi Arabia is mother of all field. No country can surpass this at least till 2030.