Natural Gas Proved Reserves

This dataset contains information about world's natural gas reserves for 1980-2020. Data from BP. Follow datasource.kapsarc.org for timely data to advance energy economics research.

^ Less than 0.05.

w Less than 0.05%.

n/a not available.

Total proved reserves of natural gas - Generally taken to be those quantities that geological and engineering information indicates with reasonable certainty can be recovered in the future from known reservoirs under existing economic and operating conditions. The data series for natural gas does not necessarily meet the definitions, guidelines and practices used for determining proved reserves at company level, for instance as published by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, nor does it necessarily represent BP’s view of proved reserves by country.

Reserves-to-production (R/P) ratio - If the reserves remaining at the end of any year are divided by the production in that year, the result is the length of time that those remaining reserves would last if production were to continue at that rate.

Source of data - The estimates in this table have been compiled using a combination of primary official sources and third-party data from Cedigaz and the OPEC Secretariat.

Annual changes and share of total are calculated.