Oil reserves

Updated August 2016

Technical_reserves_Laherrere_July2016

19/8/2016
Oil reserves and resources as function of oil price
http://crudeoilpeak.info/oil-reserves-and-resources-as-function-of-oil-price

Updated July 2013

From:  http://aspofrance.viabloga.com/texts/documents

Laherrère J.H. 2010 « Fiabilite des donnees energetiques et consequences» Club de Nice IXe Forum Energie & Geopolitique 6-8 decembre http://aspofrance.viabloga.com/files/JL_Nice2010long.pdf

OPEC reserves

This is known since September 2004: slide show by PFC Energy at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies http://csis.org/

http://www.ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/oil-forecasts-04.pdf

Column 2   Cumulative production end 2003

Column 3   Depletion levels from the PFC Energy study

Column 4   Indicated total:  Column 2 divided by Column 3 (e.g. Iraq 28 Gb / 0.22 = 127 Gb )

Column 5   Remaining reserves PFC Energy:  Column 4 minus Column 2 (e.g. Iraq 127 Gb – 28 Gb – 99 Gb)

Column 6   ASPO remaining reserves

Column 7   Salameh remaining reserves

Column 8   BP quoted remaining reserves

Column 9   BP “reserves” are total oil discovered

http://aspoireland.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/newsletter46_200410.pdf