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The world’s largest proven gas reserves are located in Russia, with. With the Gazprom company, Russia is frequently the world’s largest natural gas extractor. Major proven resources (in billion cubic meters) are world 175,400 - Russia 47,570 - Iran 26,370, Qatar 25,790 - Saudi Arabia 6,568 - and United Arab Emirates 5,823. It is estimated that there are also about 900 trillion cubic meters of “unconventional” gas such as shale gas, of which 180 trillion may be recoverable.

The world’s largest gas field is Qatar’s offshore North Field, estimated to have 25 trillion cubic meters of gas in place—enough to last more than 200 year at optimum extraction levels. The second largest natural gas field is the South Pars Gas Field in Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf. Located next to Qatar’s North Field, it has an estimated reserve of 8 to 14 trillion cubic meters of gas.

Rank	Country/Region	Natural gas proven reserves (m³)
—	World	180,650,000,000,000
1	Russia	43,300,000,000,000
2	Iran	33,100,000,000,000
3	Qatar	25,260,000,000,000
4	Turkmenistan	7,940,000,000,000
5	Saudi Arabia	7,319,000,000,000
6	United States	6,731,000,000,000
7	United Arab Emirates	6,071,000,000,000
8	Nigeria	5,215,000,000,000
9	Venezuela	4,840,000,000,000
10	Algeria	4,502,000,000,000
11	Iraq	3,170,000,000,000
12	Indonesia	3,001,000,000,000
13	China	2,460,000,000,000
14	Kazakhstan	2,407,000,000,000
15	Malaysia	2,350,000,000,000
16	Norway	2,313,000,000,000
—	European Union	2,259,000,000,000
17	Azerbaijan	2,000,000,000,000
18	Uzbekistan	1,841,000,000,000
19	Kuwait	1,794,000,000,000
20	Egypt	1,656,000,000,000
21	Canada	1,640,000,000,000
22	Libya	1,540,000,000,000
23	Netherlands	1,346,000,000,000
24	Ukraine	1,104,000,000,000
25	India	1,075,000,000,000
26	Pakistan	885,300,000,000
27	Australia	849,500,000,000
28	Oman	849,500,000,000
29	Bolivia	750,400,000,000
30	Romania	630,000,000,000
31	Vietnam	610,000,000,000
32	Hungary	600,000,000,000
33	Trinidad and Tobago	531,500,000,000
34	Yemen	478,500,000,000
35	Argentina	441,700,000,000
36	Brunei	390,800,000,000
37	Mexico	372,700,000,000
38	Brazil	365,000,000,000
39	United Kingdom	342,900,000,000
40	Peru	335,300,000,000
41	Thailand	317,100,000,000
42	Burma	283,200,000,000
43	Angola	269,800,000,000
44	Syria	240,700,000,000
45	Papua New Guinea	226,500,000,000
46	Timor-Leste	200,000,000,000
47	Germany	175,600,000,000
48	Poland	164,800,000,000
49	Bangladesh	141,600,000,000
50	Cameroon	135,100,000,000
51	Mozambique	127,400,000,000
52	Colombia	105,900,000,000
53	Philippines	98,540,000,000
54	Chile	97,970,000,000
55	Italy	94,150,000,000
56	Bahrain	92,030,000,000
57	Republic of the Congo	90,610,000,000
58	Sudan	84,950,000,000
59	Cuba	70,790,000,000
60	Tunisia	65,130,000,000
61	Namibia	62,290,000,000
62	Denmark	60,000,000,000
63	Rwanda	56,630,000,000
64	South Korea	50,000,000,000
65	Afghanistan	49,550,000,000
66	Serbia	48,140,000,000
67	Equatorial Guinea	36,810,000,000
68	Croatia	36,440,000,000
69	New Zealand	33,980,000,000
70	Israel	30,440,000,000
71	Gabon	28,320,000,000
72	Mauritania	28,320,000,000
73	Côte d’Ivoire	28,320,000,000
74	Austria	27,900,000,000
75	Ethiopia	24,920,000,000
76	Ghana	22,650,000,000
77	Japan	20,900,000,000
78	Slovakia	14,160,000,000
79	Ireland	9,911,000,000
80	Ecuador	8,919,000,000
81	Georgia	8,495,000,000
82	France	6,937,000,000
83	Turkey	6,830,000,000
84	Tanzania	6,513,000,000
85	Taiwan	6,229,000,000
86	Jordan	6,031,000,000
87	Bulgaria	5,663,000,000
88	Somalia	5,663,000,000
89	Tajikistan	5,663,000,000
90	Kyrgyzstan	5,663,000,000
91	Czech Republic	3,964,000,000
92	Guatemala	2,960,000,000
93	Belarus	2,832,000,000
94	Spain	2,548,000,000
95	Greece	1,982,000,000
96	Morocco	1,501,000,000
97	Benin	1,133,000,000
98	Democratic Republic of the Congo	991,100,000
99	Albania	849,500,000
100	Barbados	141,600,000