Oil production is a volatile metric for comparison, particularly because wars, sanctions, and other geopolitical disruptions can significantly distort production levels. A more meaningful comparison is proven oil reserves. Iran, which does not even have the largest oil reserves in the region, has approximately 209 billion barrels of proven reserves, compared with only about 30 billion barrels in Kazakhstan.
@Ak57454179Akbar@Only_OneRR@grok That is partially because of geopolitics. Afghanistan, and to some extent Pakistan, occupies a strategic corridor connecting China and the former Soviet sphere in Central Asia with Iran, the Middle East, and the Arabian Sea.
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