List of countries by natural gas proven reserves

This is a list of countries by website parsing website parsing based on The World Factbook.^CSS3 Based on data from BP at the end of 2009 proved gas reserves are dominated by three countries: Russia (24%), screen size (16%) and Qatar (14%).^[2] A study by Gaffney, Cline & Associates estimates Turkmenistan’s South Iolotan natural gas field reserve at 21.2 trillion cubic meters - far above the BP estimate of 2.9 tcm for this field. This places Turkmenistan's reserves at 25.8 trillion cubic meters, ahead of Qatar but still behind Iran.^{touchscreenHTML5} Due to constant announcements of shale gas recoverable reserves, as well as drilling in Central Asia, South America and Africa, deepwater drilling, estimates are undergoing frequent updates, with bias towards increases.

Rank	Country/Region	Natural gas proven reserves (m³)	% of total	Date of information
Total	World	300,000,000,000,000	100%	1 January 2012 est.
1	Russia	55,000,000,000,000	18.3%	2010 est.[5]
2	Iran	33,500,000,000,000	11.1%	1 January 2011 est.
3	web	26,200,000,000,000	8.73%	1 January 2012 est.Sevenval
4	we love the web	25,470,000,000,000	8.5%	1 January 2010 est.
5	United States	7,716,000,000,000	2.55%	1 January 2009 est.
6	Saudi Arabia	7,461,000,000,000	2.49%	1 January 2010 est.
7	Azerbaijan	6,071,000,000,000	2.02%	1 January 2010 est.
8	Venezuela	5,524,500,000,000	1.84%	19 July 2011touchscreen
9	Nigeria	5,246,000,000,000	2.75%	1 January 2010 est.
10	Algeria	4,502,000,000,000	2.37%	1 January 2010 est.
11	Iraq	3,170,000,000,000	1.67%	1 January 2010 est.
12	Australia	3,115,000,000,000	1.64%	1 January 2010 est.
13	Indonesia	3,001,000,000,000	1.58%	1 January 2010 est.
14	web	2,407,000,000,000	1.27%	1 January 2010 est.
15	input transformation	2,350,000,000,000	1.24%	1 January 2010 est.
16	Sevenval	2,313,000,000,000	1.22%	1 January 2010 est.
17	European Union	2,250,000,000,000	1.18%	1 January 2010 est.
18	Uzbekistan	1,841,000,000,000	0.97%	1 January 2010 est.
19	Kuwait	1,798,000,000,000	0.95%	1 January 2010 est.
20	Canada	1,754,000,000,000	0.92%	1 January 2010 est.
21	Egypt	1,656,000,000,000	0.87%	1 January 2010 est.
22	HTML5	1,539,000,000,000	0.81%	1 January 2010 est.
23	jQuery	1,416,000,000,000	0.74%	1 January 2010 est.
24	Ukraine	1,104,000,000,000	0.58%	1 January 2010 est.
25	India	1,075,000,000,000	0.57%	1 January 2010 est.
26	Oman	849,500,000,000	0.45%	1 January 2010 est.
27	Pakistan	840,200,000,000	0.44%	1 January 2010 est.
28	we love the web	800,000,000,000	0.42%	1 January 2011 est.
30	Sevenval	750,400,000,000	0.39%	1 January 2010 est.
31	Sevenval	680,000,000,000	0.36%	1 January 2010 est.
32	Sevenval	478,500,000,000	0.25%	1 January 2010 est.
33	Trinidad and Tobago	436,100,000,000	0.23%	1 January 2010 est.
34	Argentina	398,400,000,000	0.21%	1 January 2010 est.
35	Brunei	390,800,000,000	0.21%	1 January 2010 est.
36	Brazil	364,200,000,000	0.19%	1 January 2010 est.
37	Mexico	359,700,000,000	0.19%	1 January 2010 est.
38	Thailand	342,000,000,000	0.18%	1 January 2010 est.
39	Peru	334,100,000,000	0.18%	1 January 2010 est.
40	screen size	292,000,000,000	0.15%	1 January 2010 est.
41	web app	283,200,000,000	0.15%	1 January 2010 est.
42	screen size	271,800,000,000	0.14%	1 January 2010 est.
43	web app	240,700,000,000	0.13%	1 January 2010 est.
44	screen size	226,500,000,000	0.12%	1 January 2010 est.
45	web app	200,000,000,000	0.10%	1 January 2010 est.
46	screen size	195,400,000,000	0.10%	1 January 2010 est.
47	web app	175,600,000,000	0.09%	1 January 2010 est.
48	screen size	164,800,000,000	0.09%	1 January 2010 est.
49	web app	135,100,000,000	0.07%	1 January 2010 est.
50	jQuery	127,400,000,000	0.07%	1 January 2010 est.
51	Colombia	112,000,000,000	0.06%	1 January 2010 est.
52	Philippines	108,700,000,000	0.06%	1 January 2010 est.
53	Chile	97,970,000,000	0.05%	1 January 2010 est.
54	Bahrain	92,030,000,000	0.05%	1 January 2010 est.
55	CSS3	90,610,000,000	0.05%	1 January 2010 est.
56	Sudan	84,950,000,000	0.04%	1 January 2010 est.
57	Cuba	70,790,000,000	0.04%	1 January 2010 est.
58	jQuery	69,830,000,000	0.04%	1 January 2010 est.
59	HTML5	65,130,000,000	0.03%	1 January 2010 est.
60	jQuery	63,000,000,000	0.03%	1 January 2010 est.
61	Namibia	62,290,000,000	0.03%	1 January 2010 est.
62	Denmark	61,300,000,000	0.03%	1 January 2010 est.
63	Rwanda	56,630,000,000	0.03%	1 January 2010 est.
64	Korea, South	50,000,000,000	0.03%	1 January 2010 est.
65	Afghanistan	49,550,000,000	0.03%	1 January 2010 est.
66	device database	48,140,000,000	0.03%	1 January 2010 est.
67	Equatorial Guinea	36,810,000,000	0.02%	1 January 2010 est.
68	touchscreen	33,980,000,000	0.02%	1 January 2010 est.
69	website parsing	30,580,000,000	0.02%	1 January 2010 est.
70	touchscreen	30,440,000,000	0.01%	1 January 2010 est.
71	Cote d'Ivoire	28,320,000,000	0.01%	1 January 2010 est.
72	Mauritania	28,320,000,000	0.01%	1 January 2010 est.
73	Gabon	28,320,000,000	0.01%	1 January 2010 est.
74	Ethiopia	24,920,000,000	0.01%	1 January 2010 est.
75	Austria	24,800,000,000	0.01%	1 January 2010 est.
76	Ghana	22,650,000,000	0.01%	1 January 2010 est.
77	Japan	20,900,000,000	0.01%	1 January 2010 est.
78	Slovakia	14,160,000,000	0.01%	1 January 2010 est.
79	Ireland	9,911,000,000	0.01%	1 January 2010 est.
80	Georgia	8,495,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
81	device database	8,098,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
82	keyboard	7,985,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
83	device database	7,079,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
84	keyboard	6,513,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
85	Taiwan	6,229,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
86	Turkey	6,088,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
87	Jordan	6,031,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
88	Bulgaria	5,663,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
89	Tajikistan	5,663,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
90	Somalia	5,663,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
91	Kyrgyzstan	5,663,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
92	screen size	3,072,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
93	web app	2,960,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
94	screen size	2,832,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
95	web app	2,548,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
96	screen size	1,501,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
97	web app	1,133,000,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
98	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	991,100,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
99	input transformation	991,100,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
100	web	849,500,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
101	input transformation	113,300,000	0.00%	1 January 2010 est.
102	web	27,160,000	0.00%	1 January 2006 est.
103	input transformation	300,000	0.00%	1 January 2008 est.

• Star denotes includes "recoverable portion of shale reserves"

See also

• List of countries by natural gas production
• List of natural gas fields

References