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Figure 1.26<br />

Proven oil reserves at end 2011 billion barrels<br />

North America<br />

39.4<br />

Proven oil reserves at end 2011<br />

(billion barrels)<br />

327.0<br />

S. & Central<br />

America<br />

128.6<br />

Africa<br />

Source: OPEC Annual Statistical Bulletin, 2012 edition.<br />

OECD Europe<br />

12.6<br />

mind, an assumption of between 2 mb/d and 3 mb/d of shale oil is assumed to emerge<br />

by 2020 and 2035, respectively. The lower growth after 2020 is justified by the fact<br />

that the best shale oil plays will be tapped first.<br />

Short-term data revisions for non-OPEC crude and NGLs supply in OECD<br />

Europe, OECD Asia Oceania, Middle East & Africa, Asia and the Caspian have shifted<br />

the 2011 base down by almost 700,000 b/d. The medium-term expectations for<br />

crude supply from Middle East and Africa and the Caspian region (other Eurasia)<br />

have become somewhat more pessimistic due to new data on investment projects.<br />

Regarding biofuels, since the WOO 2011, growing debt burdens across many<br />

countries are now thought to represent a hurdle, given the reduced willingness and<br />

ability to subsidize biofuels. Moreover, experience has already shown the difficulties<br />

in achieving established targets (for example, due to the introduction of waivers, delays<br />

in the implementation of directives, on-going concerns over the implications for<br />

land use changes, concerns over capital availability, high feedstock prices, and growing<br />

perceptions that targets for second-generation biofuels are clearly over-ambitious).<br />

The biofuels outlook has, therefore, been slightly adjusted downwards to reflect<br />

these insights and their impact on medium-term projections, but also to reflect the<br />

796.8<br />

Eurasia<br />

127.0<br />

Middle East<br />

Asia Pacific<br />

50.1<br />

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