According to Wikileaks, from 2007 to 2009, US officials believed that Saudi Arabia overstated its oil reserves by about 40%

According to Wikileaks, from 2007 to 2009, US officials believed that Saudi Arabia overstated its oil reserves by about 40% or 300B barrels - Guardian-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/08/sa…

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mxc:
It is a well-known fact that OPEC countries overstate their reserves to increase production.

According to who, exactly? I go to school and I am close friends with the direct grand daughter of one of the gulf oil ministers, and I know the minister well. It's just rumours man. Cant you just let it die?

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konig:
mxc:
It is a well-known fact that OPEC countries overstate their reserves to increase production.

According to who, exactly? I go to school and I am close friends with the direct grand daughter of one of the gulf oil ministers, and I know the minister well. It's just rumours man. Cant you just let it die?

http://www.ipc66.com/publications/IS_World_Oil_Reserves.pdf Page 8, we just don't feel comfortable with you guys reporting more oil when you aren't opening new fields. Sure, the extraction technology is improving, so recoverable should be going up and this report may be a red herring, but you have to understand that we don't have the same trust in your ministers that you do.

 
konig:
According to who, exactly? I go to school and I am close friends with the direct grand daughter of one of the gulf oil ministers, and I know the minister well. It's just rumours man. Cant you just let it die?
Oh the minister is a friend of yours... Obviously you're in the know.

My source are academic. I tend to believe petroleum engineering experts more than Gulf oil officials who have a clear interest in overstating their reserves.

 

Maybe its just me but it seems like an overstatement wouldnt help opec countries in anyway. I feel that the only ones who would really benefit from this are consumer nations. It just baffles me that any producer would overstate their reserves. For one i would understate my reserves, yea its market manipulation but isnt overstating market manipulation as well?

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Overstating is an issue, but over production more so. Oil wells are almost human. You can get more production out of them, but you damage them. Basically taking more upfront, but getting less over the life.

 

I understand that they have production quotas based on reserve, but im talking in the terms of market prices. I know its cliche but its simple supply and demand. Say you have 100 billion barrles of oil reserves, if you over state that by 10% you apper to have more oil and that would drive the price down if demand is constant. If you understate it by the same percentage you would dirve the price up in a stable demand situation. Yes its a overly basic example and it doesnt reflect the real world in any way but the general principal is there.

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heister:
I understand that they have production quotas based on reserve, but im talking in the terms of market prices. I know its cliche but its simple supply and demand. Say you have 100 billion barrles of oil reserves, if you over state that by 10% you apper to have more oil and that would drive the price down if demand is constant. If you understate it by the same percentage you would dirve the price up in a stable demand situation. Yes its a overly basic example and it doesnt reflect the real world in any way but the general principal is there.

You're applying a monopoly principle to an oligopoly. If one player overstates they benefit by being able to pump more oil at a price above what would be available by increasing the quota. That makes it a soft way to break collusion without actually admitting to pumping more than your allowed reserve % and getting kicked out.

 

subjective arguements are worthless in a case like this. We don't trust the fat white men that make your policies either, but do you see us bitching about it?

If you could name ONE field as strangely large and limitless as Ghawar (The main field), then I will give up my arguement completely. Theres nothing like it. for fuck's sake they haven't even discovered where the bottom is or how far away it is, and they are developing and using the most advanced technology. No need for all of this fear mongering.

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The term "reserves" is almost meaningless.

When you talk about "reserves", there are Proved, Probable, and Possible reserves... you can also talk about economically recoverable, technically recoverable, and reserves in-place, and all this is determined by probability curves. So the fact that the Saudis are "overstating reserves" tells me very little.

Typically there is a lot more oil in the ground than what is stated by the proved reserves figure. Again, it all comes down to statistics and probability. So if someone overstates proved reserves by 40%, that doesn't mean the oil isn't there... it might just be harder/more expensive to recover, or the technology may not be there yet to do so. Prices and technologies change over time, though, so the probability curves will change, as well as the definition of how much of the oil is technically recoverable, economically recoverable, etc...

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