Recoverable Natural Gas Resources of the World*, Table
- Recoverable Natural Gas Resources of the World*, Table
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region cumulative reserves undiscovered total gas
production resources endowment
United States 22.4 4.6 11.2 38.2
Canada 2.6 2.7 10.3 15.6
Mexico 0.8 2.0 4.4 7.2
South America 1.8 5.5 5.9 13.2
Western Europe 4.1 5.4 5.8 15.3
Russia and Ukraine 8.6 47.0 45.0 100.6
Transcaucasia and Central Asia 2.9 10.7 6.6 20.2
Middle East 2.1 44.3 31.5 77.9
Africa (including North Africa) 1.1 9.6 12.4 23.1
China 0.5 1.7 7.3 9.5
Oceania and Asia (excluding China) 2.0 8.3 13.0 23.3
Total world 48.9 141.8 153.4 344.1
*In trillion cubic metres; figures adapted from
Oil & Gas Journal and U.S. Geological
Survey.
* * *
Universalium.
2010.
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