VOL. XXXII

NO. 50

18-SEPTEMBER-1989

GENERAL

US Department of Energy Warns of Falling Proved Oil and Gas Reserve

Proved oil reserves - defined as crude oil that could be produced from knownreservoirs under existing economic conditions - fell 1.6% or 431mn barrels to26.8bn barrels on 31 December 1988 compared to the previous year, according to areport published last week by the US Energy Department. The reserves havedropped each year during the past decade except in 1984, when a gain of 711mnbarrels...