[Coffee_drinker]

Does anyone know how this compares to the reserves in
the middle east?

[cogitator]

Does anyone know how this compares to the reserves in the middle east?

Drop in the bucket. Somewhat significant compared to all other U.S. oil reserves.

[RightWhale]

Who knows. 400 billion barrels, just a guess.

[ginle]

from: http://www.bp.com/centres/energy/world_stat_rev/oil/reserves.asp (2nd map down) Middle east oil = 583.6 billion barells from another part of site : current DAILY oil production = 75 million barrells therefore 10bn barells = 133 days worth of oil production