Venezuela tops Saudi on biggest crude reserves: oPEC

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London—Venezuela overtook Saudi Arabialast year as the world’s biggest holder of prov-en crude oil reserves, boosting its reserves by40.4% to 296.5 billion barrels, OPEC said July18 in its annual statistics bulletin. The increase means that Venezuela hasovertaken Saudi Arabia, whose crude reserveswere almost unchanged last year at 264.5 bil-lion barrels.