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• Comparative fuel data

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  FUELS
  Consumption
  m tonnes oil equivalent*
  Country	Oil		Gas	Coal	Nuclear	Hydro	Renewable	Total
  Brazil	116.9		23.8	12.4	3.3	89.6	7.9	253.9
  Mexico	87.4		62.0	8.4	1.3	8.3	1.7	169.1
  Venezuela	35.2		27.6	(.)	-	17.4	-	80.3
  Argentina	25.7		39.0	1.2	1.6	9.2	0.4	77.1
  Colombia	11.0		8.2	3.8	-	9.1	0.2	32.2
  Trinidad & T		2.1	19.8	-	-	-	(.)	22.0
  Chile	14.7		4.2	3.7	-	4.9	0.8	28.4
  Peru	8.4		4.9	0.5	-	4.4	0.1	18.3
  Ecuador	10.6		0.4	-	-	2.0	0.1	13.0
  Other	57.3		5.0	2.1	-	20.7	1.7	86.8
  Total	369.4		194.9	32.2	6.2	165.5	12.8	781.0
  *Ranked by total consumption.

  
  

  Dependency
  % of total consumption*
  Country	Oil	Gas	Coal	Nuclear	Hydro	Renewable
  Ecuador	81.5	3.1	-	-	15.4	0.8
  Chile	51.8	14.8	13.0	-	17.3	2.8
  Mexico	51.7	36.7	5.0	0.8	4.9	1.0
  Brazil	46.0	9.4	4.9	1.3	35.2	3.1
  Peru	45.9	26.8	2.7	-	24.0	0.5
  Venezuela	43.8	34.4	(.)	-	21.1	-
  Colombia	34.2	25.5	11.8	-	28.2	0.6
  Argentina	33.3	50.6	1.6	2.1	11.9	0.5
  Trinidad & T	9.5	90.0	-	-	-	(.)
  Other	66.0	5.8	2.4	-	23.8	2.0
  Total	47.3	25.0	4.1	0.8	21.2	1.6
  *Ranked by degree of dependency on oil.

  
  

  Oil consumption
  m barrels per day*
  Country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
  Brazil	2.1	2.2	2.4	2.4	2.6
  Mexico	2.0	2.1	2.1	2.0	2.0
  Venezuela	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8
  Argentina	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6
  Chile	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3
  Colombia	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
  Ecuador	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
  Peru	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
  Trinidad & T	(.)	(.)	(.)	(.)	(.)
  Other	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2
  Total	7.3	7.7	7.9	7.8	8.1
  *Ranked by data for 2010.
  Source for all tables: Own presentation of data from BP.

  
  

• Oil

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  OIL
  Reserves
  Proved, bn barrels at year-end*
  Country	1990	2000	2009	2010
  Venezuela	60.1	76.8	211.2	211.2
  Brazil	4.5	8.5	12.9	14.2
  Mexico	51.3	20.2	11.7	11.4
  Ecuador	1.4	4.6	6.3	6.2
  Argentina	1.6	3.0	2.5	2.5
  Colombia	2.0	2.0	1.4	1.9
  Peru	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.2
  Trinidad & T.	0.6	0.9	0.8	0.8
  Other	0.6	1.3	1.4	1.4
  Total	122.8	118.1	249.3	250.8
  *Ranked by data for 2010.

  
  

  Production
  m barrels per day*
  Country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
  Venezuela	2.8	2.6	2.6	2.4	2.5
  Mexico	3.7	3.5	3.2	3.0	3.0
  Brazil	1.8	1.8	1.9	2.0	2.1
  Colombia	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.8
  Argentina	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7
  Ecuador	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
  Peru	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2
  Trinidad & T	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1
  Other	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
  Total	10.6	10.1	9.9	9.8	10.0
  *Ranked by data for 2010.

  
  

  Refinery capacity
  m barrels per day*
  Country	2006	2007		2008	2009	2010
  Brazil	1.9		1.9	2.0	2.1	2.1
  Mexico	1.5		1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
  Venezuela	1.3		1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3
  Argentina	0.6		0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
  Neth. Antilles	0.3		0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
  Other	2.3		2.3	2.4	2.3	2.4
  Total	7.9		8.0	8.2	8.2	8.2
  *Ranked by data for 2010.
  Source for all tables: Own presentation of data from BP.

  
  

• Gas

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  GAS
  Reserves
  Proved, tn cubic metres, at year-end*
  Country	1990	2000	2009	2010
  Venezuela	3.4	4.2	5.1	5.5
  Mexico	2.0	0.8	0.5	0.5
  Brazil	0.1	0.2	0.4	0.4
  Peru	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.4
  Trinidad & T	0.3	0.6	0.4	0.4
  Argentina	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.3
  Bolivia	0.1	0.7	0.7	0.1
  Colombia	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
  Other	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
  Total	7.2	7.7	8.0	7.9
  *Ranked by data for 2010.

  
  

  Production
  bn cubic metres*
  Country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
  Mexico	51.5	53.6	54.2	54.9	55.3
  Trinidad & T	36.4	39.0	39.3	40.6	42.4
  Argentina	46.1	44.8	44.1	41.4	40.1
  Venezuela	31.5	29.5	30.0	28.7	28.5
  Bolivia	12.9	13.8	14.3	12.3	14.4
  Brazil	11.3	11.2	13.7	11.7	14.4
  Colombia	7.0	7.5	9.1	10.5	11.3
  Peru	1.8	2.7	3.4	3.5	7.2
  Other	4.1	3.9	3.7	3.2	2.9
  Total	202.6	206.1	211.8	206.8	216.5
  *Ranked by data for 2010.

  
  

  Consumption
  bn cubic metres*
  Country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
  Mexico	60.9	62.8	66.4	66.6	68.9
  Argentina	41.8	43.9	44.4	43.2	43.3
  Venezuela	31.5	29.6	31.5	30.5	30.7
  Brazil	20.8	21.1	24.6	19.8	26.5
  Trinidad & T	20.2	20.3	21.9	20.9	22.0
  Colombia	7.0	7.4	7.6	8.7	9.1
  Peru	1.8	2.7	3.4	3.5	5.4
  Chile	7.8	4.6	2.7	3.1	4.7
  Ecuador	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
  Other	3.9	4.5	4.7	5.1	5.6
  Total	196.4	197.4	207.7	201.7	216.6
  *Ranked by data for 2010.
  Source for all tables: Own presentation of data from BP.

  
  

• Hydroelectricity; Nuclear; Shale gas

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  Hydroelectricity: consumption
  m tonnes oil equivalent*
  Country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
  Brazil	78.9	84.6	83.6	88.5	89.6
  Venezuela	18.5	18.8	19.6	19.5	17.4
  Argentina	9.8	8.5	8.4	9.2	9.2
  Colombia	9.7	9.5	10.4	9.3	9.1
  Mexico	6.9	6.1	8.8	6.0	8.3
  Chile	6.6	5.2	5.4	5.6	4.9
  Peru	4.4	4.4	4.3	4.5	4.4
  Ecuador	1.6	2.0	2.6	2.1	2.0
  Other	18.5	19.3	19.4	19.2	20.7
  Total	154.9	158.5	162.7	163.9	165.5
  *Ranked according to data for 2010.

  
  

  
  

  Hydroelectricity: potential
  GW & % developed*
  Country	GW	% developed
  Brazil	144	31
  Colombia	93	20
  Peru	62	13
  Venezuela	28	11
  Argentina	44	10
  Bolivia	39	9
  Chile	26	6
  Other	116	10
  Total	552	25
  *Ranked by % of potential developed.
  Source: PSR, based on Olade.

  
  

  Nuclear energy: consumption
  m tonnes oil equivalent*
  Country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
  Mexico	2.5	2.4	2.2	2.4	1.3
  Argentina	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.8	1.6
  Brazil	3.1	2.8	3.2	2.9	3.3
  Total	7.3	6.8	7.0	7.1	6.2
  *Ranked according to data for 2010.

  
  

  Shale gas potential
  Tn cubic metres
  Country	Proven gas reserves	Technically recoverable shale gas reserves
  Argentina	0.4	22.0
  Mexico	0.3	19.0
  Venezuela	5.0	0.3
  Source: PSR, based on Nature.