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Oil proved reserves - 1985/1995/2005
This stacked bar chart shows the world proved oil reserves according to geographic region for the years 1985, 1995 and 2005. Oil proved reserves are measured in thousand million barrels.

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	Units	1985	1995	2005
Total Middle East - Proved oil reserves	'000 million barrels	431.28	661.46	742.71
Total Europe & Eurasia - Proved oil reserves	'000 million barrels	78.62	81.5	140.53
Total S. & Cent. America - Proved oil reserves	'000 million barrels	62.91	83.81	103.5
Total North America - Proved oil reserves	'000 million barrels	101.51	89.04	59.47
Total Africa - Proved oil reserves	'000 million barrels	57.04	71.95	114.27
Total Asia Pacific - Proved oil reserves	'000 million barrels	39.08	39.2	40.22

(1) Proved reserves are generally taken to be those quantities that geological and engineering information indicates with reasonable certainty can be recovered in the future from known reservoirs/deposits under existing economic and operating conditions.
(2) Source of data - The estimates in this table have been compiled using a combination of primary official sources, third-party data from the OPEC Secretariat, World Oil, Oil & Gas Journal and an independent estimate of Russian reserves based on information in the public domain. The reserves figures shown do not necessarily meet the definitions, guidelines and practices used for determining proved reserves at the company level, for instance those published by the US Securities and Exchange Commission or recommended for the purposes of UK SORP, nor do they necessarily represent BP's view of proved reserves by country. The figure for Canadian oil reserves includes an official estimate of Canadian oil sands 'under active development'. Oil includes gas condensate and natural gas liquids as well as crude oil.

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