They control 80% of the world's known oil reserves and nearly half of the world's crude oil production.

他们控制着世界上80%的已知石油储量和近一半的世界原油产量。

By the EIA's reckoning, known reserves that are recoverable using existing methods will last another century at current rates of production.

根据 EIA 的估计，以目前的生产速度，使用现有方法可采收的已知储量将持续一个世纪。

The country has the largest known oil reserves in the world and floods the market to become the largest producer of crude.

该国拥有世界上已知的最大石油储量， 原油大量涌入市场， 成为最大的原油生产国。

Venezuela, over a few years, discovers it holds the largest known oil reserves in the world, putting it ahead of Saudi Arabia.

几年来， 委内瑞拉发现其拥有世界上已知的最大石油储量，超过了沙特阿拉伯。

Together, potentially participating countries account for more than 30 percent of global GDP, 62 percent of the world’s population and 75 percent of known energy reserves.

潜在参与国合计占全球 GDP 的 30% 以上、世界人口的 62% 和已知能源储量的 75%。

When Iraq invades Kuwait, which then held 9% of the known oil reserves in the world, the United States forms a coalition and neutralizes the Iraqi army.

当伊拉克入侵科威特时，美国组建了联盟并消灭了伊拉克军队，而科威特当时拥有世界已知石油储量的 9%。

Those are the facts. But as I've been saying all week, even though America uses around 20% of the world's oil, we only have around 2% of the world's known oil reserves.

这些都是实事。 但就像我这周一直所说的，虽然我们的石油消费量占到全球的20%，但我们的石油储量却只有全球已探明储量的2%。

Not only was cobalt, a crucial battery material, being dug up far too slowly to meet soaring demand, but the lion's share of known reserves sat in Congo, a country rife with instability, corruption and child labour.

不仅重要的电池材料钴的开采速度太慢，无法满足飙升的需求，而且已知储量的绝大部分位于刚果，一个充斥着动荡、腐败和童工现象的国家。