Syria's proved natural gas reserves are published as 8,500 billion cubic feet, and the figure has been reprinted unchanged for at least five years
Claim ID
GASRES-001
Exact or summary claim
Syria's proved natural gas reserves are published as 8,500 billion cubic feet, and the figure has been reprinted unchanged for at least five years
Destination
Chapter 9
Status
QUALIFIED
Source
Oil and Gas Journal, 'Worldwide look at reserves and production', November-December 2025, Syria row second and fourth columns, read at the render research/CH9_OILGAS_OGJ_wwrp_2025-11-12_pages/p001.png; the 2023 edition at research/CH9_OILGAS_OGJ_wwrp_2023.pdf; EIA 2015 brief at research/CH9_OILGAS_EIA_syria_2015_CAB.txt line 202
Source type
Trade publication survey, and a national statistical agency citing it
Published
2025-11-12
Accessed
2026-08-23
Measure and scope
Estimated proved reserves of natural gas, in billion cubic feet, Syrian Arab Republic, as at 1 January of the stated year. 8,500 bcf is 8.5 trillion cubic feet
Known conflict
THE SAME CARRY-FORWARD AS THE OIL FIGURE. 8,500 is printed at 1 January 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026, and the EIA reported the identical 8.5 tcf for January 2015 citing the same journal. The manuscript's own observation that the figure is 'not wrong so much as frozen' is confirmed and extended by five years
Specialist
Petroleum reserves estimation
Downstream
Chapters 9 and 10
Action
Print it as frozen, with the span of years over which it has not moved, and name the single publisher behind both the journal and the EIA versions