Top Ten Oil Reserves Countries (At end 2015)

Rank Countries Thousand million Barrels Share of total 1 Venezuela 300.9 17.70% 2 Saudi Arabia 266.6 15.70% 3 Canada 172.2 10.10% 4 Iran 157.8 9.30% 5 Iraq 143.1 8.40% 6 Russian Federation 102.4 6.00% 7 Kuwait 101.5 6.00% 8 United Arab Emirates 97.8 5.80% 9 US 55 3.20% 10 Libya 48.4 2.80%

Images of Proven Oil Reserves by Country

Going by the latest data, Venezuela is the country with highest reserve of crude oil in the world. This South American nation has surpassed Saudi Arabia by a margin of 30 billion barrels. Canada is the only North American nation in the list. It is at the third position with 171 billion barrels of proved reserve. Iran and Iraq rank 4th and 5th respectively. Russia finds itself at the 7th position with a proved reserve of around 103.2 billion barrels. Two African nations – Libya and Nigeria – have proved reserves of 48.4 and 37 billion barrels of crude oil.https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/pdf/energy-economics/statistical-review-2016/bp-statistical-review-of-world-energy-2016-full-report.pdfBP Statistical Review Of World Energy June 2016