Where is the largest cache of oil and gas reserves located in the world, and can we tap into it?
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Oil - Rank Country Proved reserves \n(billion barrels) \n1.  Saudi Arabia 261.9 \n2. Canada 178.81 \n3. Iran 125.8 \n4. Iraq 115.0 \n5. Kuwait 101.5 \n6. United Arab Emirates 97.8 \n7. Venezuela 77.2 \n8. Russia 60.0 \n9. Libya 39.0 \n10. Nigeria 35.3 \n\n\nGas - Rank Country Proved reserves \n(trillion cu ft) \n1. Russia 1,680.0 \n2. Iran 940.0 \n3. Qatar 910.0 \n4. Saudi Arabia 235.0 \n5. United Arab Emirates 212.1 \n6. United States 189.0 \n7. Nigeria 176.0 \n8. Algeria 160.5 \n9. Venezuela 151.0 \n10. Iraq 110.0
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Most likely the U.S. We have thousands of oil wells offshore,that are just drilled and capped off.Tens of thousands on dry land.And we've never touched Alaska,it has more than the rest of the U.S. combined.
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Yes.  But unfortunately even if all the oil in Alaska was recoverable, it still wouldn't have a noticeable effect on gas prices.  The US uses 19 million barrels of oil a day.  The US Geological Survey estimates there are 10.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil in ANWR.  That's only enough to supply the US's demand for 1.5 years.  And then, as its a non-renewable resource, that oil is gone forever.
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asia oil , gas , wild animals and voodoo
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we only produce 25 percent of what we use they claim so we get it from other allied countries. its bought alot cheaper than you think. the government pays less than half you see at the pumps for regular. there is enough oil and natural gas in the appalation mountains to last 2,000 years. there are other secret sites but they won't touch it as we would be paying 10 cents a gallon. the more they claim we don't have, the more profit they make. they don't want the easy route. it was discovered that we had so much excess oil athat many empty wells were being used to store it secretly, but they got caught to some point. the oil giants control the government.
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http://exxonmobil.com/Corporate/About/OurActivities/NEW_Corp_OA_Upstream.asp\n\n40 countries it says.
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You should look at an atlas. The Gulf of Mexico is bigger.
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http://www.jordanjubilee.com/images/people/photos/xkefiya2.jpg\n\nYou must be in oil business?
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Israel actually has oil reserves. Thats where is natural resources will come from, granted its mainly Olive oil, but there is some black gold too.
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You mean like going to war in the middle east or drilling for oil in Alaska?
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Specifically as crude oil the best estimate is 2.2 trillion barrels. That includes estimates of undiscovered oil. Known remaining reserves of crude oil are about 890 billion barrels.\n\nHowever, to truly consider remaining reserves you must consider natural gas and NGL's (natural gas liquids). The most reliable estimate is that about 4.9 (Four and nine-tenths: sorry Yahoo seems to be censoring nines)trillion barrels of oil equivalent remain. The "equivalent' part is because natural gas and condensate are also included in that estimate, while these are normally measured in cubic feet and not barrels. This estimate does not include tar sands, oil shale, or gas hydrates which may all make significant contributions in the future. Tar sands are already producing significant oil in northern Canada.   \n\nThe estimate includes remaining reserves, reserve growth (a phenomenon where initial estimates of oil in place often are found to be too low after the fields are fully explored), and estimates of undiscovered oil. Undiscovered oil can be estimated by examining what are called petroleum systems, where basins have formed significant deposits that should contain oil. \n\nThis estimate was made by the USGS in 2000 and the results are published in an American Association of Petroleum Geologists book titled "Global Resource Estimates from Total Petroleum Systems".
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All of the reserves are full, and this administration will not release them. Exxon Mobil reported 340 Billion in profits for 2005 with all the hurricane damage. What is store for 2006?
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The world's largest desert is located there!!\nCalled the Great Basin.
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Try Reading the END OF OIL by Paul Roberts.\nIt'll run out a darn-sight sooner than we thought!\nOIL companies have/did lie about the amount of oil they have left.\nThe oil that is being pumped now has 2 go thru more refining than ever B4 & is down 2 the amount of Sea water they pump in 2 the fields.\nEverytime a alternative 2 oil is investigated the Oil companies surpress the data.  They R not going 2 give up on oil until every last drop has been extracted & no-one can predict exactly what affect this will have on the Planet. I'm sure that any warnings would proberly supressed by the oil companies 2.
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That question can’t be answered until you tell us what we mean by ‘supply’. Oil supplies are measured in 3 basic ways.\n\nThe first type of supply is the liquid crude reserve supply. This is the amount of liquid oil that we absolutely, definitely know we can make a prophet out of at today’s prices and using today’s technology.  We have drilled well into reserve supplies, we know they are there, we know how much and we know the quality. Proven reserves are in the 1017-981 billion barrel range. (See link 1 below)\n\nThe second type is the  liquid crude  resource supply. This is the amount of liquid oil that we know exists in the ground that we can reasonably expect to be able to get to if we need it. We haven’t fully explored resource supplies. There might have been a few test holes drilled and various seismic tests but at the moment it’s not worth doing more detailed investigation because it isn’t profitable enough. Current estimates of world liquid oil resources range from 2, 248 to 3, 896 billion barrels. (See link 2 below).\n\nThen come the non-liquid oil resources. These are massive. They include tar sands and oil shales amongst other things. Although Canada has been profitably extracting sand oil for decades it is less profitable than drilling for liquid crude oil, so nobody has fully explored the extent of sand and shale oil. We know it’s huge, far larger than the amount of liquid crude ever discovered. But just how large is uncertain. Best estimates say that worldwide tar sands amount to 6,200 billion barrels with 890 billion\nbarrels being “recoverable”, while oil shale  in the US alone amounts to some 160,000 billion barrels (see link 3 below).\n\n______________\n>>>> guess-timates put our production peak around 25 years.\n\nNo, they don't. They put our liquid crude peak at around then, but the question asked about all oil, not just liquid crude. The leak for all oil won't come for another 100 years or so.
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I remember that they have stored oil in disused mines. This may have been in South Africa during the apartheid years, but I am not sure.\n\nI found a link that references this: http://www.mbendi.co.za/indy/oilg/af/sa/p0010.htm\n\nThe premier engineering faculties in South Africa are the University of the Witwatersrand and University of Pretoria. \n\nTheir civil/mining engineering faculties would likely be able to help you.
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Organisation of Petroleum Exporing Countries