Total hydrocarbon reserves increased by 2.5% to 147.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent from 143.5 bboe in 2009 and total production of hydrocarbons increased by 9.6% to 3.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent from 3.03 bboe in 2009.

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Green aficionados are familiar with the statistic that the sun bathes the Earth in trillions of barrels of energy (in oil equivalent terms), and less familiar with the fact that total known hydrocarbon resources are also countable in the trillions of barrels (from the oil-sands and ultra-deep-water sub-salt fields, to methane hydrates and coal, not to mention shale gas).

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The world is on track to generate more data traffic associated with hydrocarbon production than the total amount of global consumer Internet traffic of just a few years ago.

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