Around three-quarters of the world's proven gas reserves are in the former Soviet Union and the Middle East.
Argentina's proven gas reserves fell by 35% between 2000 and 2004.
In addition to oil reserves, Nigeria holds approximately 185 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of proven natural gas reserves, making the country the largest natural gas holder in Africa and the seventh largest in the world.
Adoption of these techniques has boosted the U.S. proven natural gas reserves by about a trillion cubic meters to around 7 trillion cubic meters.
Abu Dhabi Media, the company which financed Promised Land, is wholly-owned by the UAE government, which in turn, ranks seventh worldwide in proven natural gas reserves.
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There's the slick salesman who needs billions of dollars in capital and technical know-how from the outside in order to exploit a quadrillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves (50 years' U.S. consumption) and 300, 000 miles of pipeline crisscrossing Russia from the Baltic border east to Tomsk in Siberia and from Uzbekistan north toward the Arctic Circle.
Chevron has 20% of its net proven oil and natural gas reserves in that country.
As per the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, as at the end of 2010 the North Dakota region had 1, 185 billion cubic feet of proven reserves of shale gas.
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Proven and probable reserves of natural gas rose 2.7% to 22.5 trillion cubic meters, from the 21.9 tcm last year, the company said.
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Gas does now contribute 35% to power generation, but rock-bottom prices and a sniffiness about gas as oil's poor relation mean that exploiting its bounty (Saudi Arabia apparently has the world's fifth-largest gas reserves) has proven hard.
And regarding natural gas, the U.S. has expanded its proven domestic reserves to 2.6 trillion cubic feet enough to power this country for centuries to come.
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It's a 1, 270-kilometer conduit, 1.2 meters in diameter, that would snake across Afghanistan to carry natural gas from eastern Turkmenistan--with 700 billion cubic meters of proven reserves--to energy-hungry Pakistan and beyond.
According to the Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ), Nigeria has nearly 36 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, making it the largest oil producer in Africa and the tenth largest producer of crude in the world.
The company has proven reserves of 3.1 billion boe (barrels of oil or the natural gas equivalent).
As with all oil and gas plays, this stock will trade on its discoveries and any dramatic increases in proven reserves.
Some estimates place global unconventional gas resources at about 33, 000 trillion cubic feet, or about five times the amount of proven reserves at the end of 2009.
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