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Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world (by a lot) (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml
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I'd thought it was either somewhere in the Middle East or a big country like Russia

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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Did you know that countries self report their "proven reserves" and this influence the quota they could produce with the OPEC ?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    The CIA also has them as the country with largest reserves in their World Factbook

    As a matter of fact, according to the looking at the Wikipedia article OP posted I just did, BP, the CIA, the EIA and OPEC all agree it's above 300 billion barrels, with less than 1% variation between them.

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