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Some have proposed that the actual motive for the United States-led Western invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was Afghanistan's importance as a conduit for oil pipelines to Afghanistan's neighbouring countries, by effectively bypassing Russian and Iranian territories, and breaking the Russian and Iranian collective monopoly on regional energy supplies. [2]
In December 2011, Afghanistan signed an oil exploration contract with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) for the development of three oil fields along the Amu Darya river. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] In 2012 it was projected Afghanistan would have its first oil refineries within the next three years, after which it will receive 70 percent of the ...
Map of countries with proven oil reserves - according to US EIA (start of 2017) Trends in proven oil reserves in top five countries, 1980–2013 (data from US Energy Information Administration) A map of world oil reserves according to OPEC, January 2014
Afghanistan has its own oil fields in the northern provinces of Sar-e Pol, Jowzjan and Faryab. [46] [47] These fields contain an estimated 1.9 billion barrels of crude oil and approximately 15 billion cubic feet of natural gas. [48] [49] Some of the oil and gas is used to produce electricity locally. [50]
The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. [1] However, 94% of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1,500 giant and major fields. [ 2 ] Most of the world's largest oilfields are located in the Middle East , but there are also supergiant (>10 billion bbls ) oilfields in Brazil, Mexico ...
Top 5 oil-producing countries 1980–2022 World oil production. This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2023, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis.
U.S. energy giant Chevron expects 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day from Kazakhstan's Tengiz oil field, which is among the world's biggest. Meanwhile, an Exxon executive downplayed hopes ...
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