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Oil Reserves Cartogram

Oil map A cartogram showing the world’s oil reserves: the larger the country, the more oil it has. The Arabian peninsula is understandably enormous; see also Nigeria and Venezuela. Not sure how this map works, since both Canada and Russia are disproportionately small despite what I thought were substantial oil reserves. Via Kottke.

Posted on Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 9:21 PM
Categories: Energy & Resources

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Humm… strange. I think the oil reserves are a function of the barrel price. That’s why Canada has huge reserves if the price is high, and low reserves of the price is low (due to Canada’s unusual high cost of oil production in Alberta).

Well, I might be wrong, but I guess this is what explains the cartogram. What do you think?

Satri | 12/28/2007 at 1:08 PM | #

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