ОПЕК - Political Reserves: Background and Demonstration
Political Reserves: Background and Demonstration

In the above table, the red boldface numbers are considered spurious reserve claims. Also curious are the instances of reserves remaining identical over a period of years, despite intensive production.
It can be seen that fully 45% of all the above reserve claims are questionable - even neglecting repeatedly unchanged reserve data.

Selected Reported Reserves (Gb) with Suspect Increases
Year	Abu Dhabi	Dubai	Iran	Iraq	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia*	Venezuela	Spurious Amount
1980	28.00	1.40	58.00	31.00	65.40	163.35	17.87	0
1981	29.00	1.40	57.50	30.00	65.90	165.00	17.95	0
1982	30.60	1.27	57.00	29.70	64.48	164.60	20.30	0
1983	30.51	1.44	55.31	41.00?	64.23	162.40	21.50	11.3
1984	30.40	1.44	51.00	43.00	63.90	166.00	24.85	0
1985	30.50	1.44	48.50	44.50	90.00?	169.00	25.85	26.1
1986	31.00	1.40	47.88	44.11	89.77	168.80	25.59	0
1987	31.00	1.35	48.80	47.10	91.92	166.57	25.00	0
1988	92.21?	4.00?	92.85?	100.00?	91.92	166.98	56.30?	192.11
1989	92.21	4.00	92.85	100.00	91.92	169.97	58.08	0
1990	92.00	4.00	93.00	100.00	95.00	258.00??	59.00	88.3
TOTALS: Declared Reserves for above Nations (1990) = 701.00 Gb - Spurious Claims = 317.54 Gb
data from Dr. Colin Campbell, in SunWorld, 1995 (click here for references)

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