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The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. [1] However, 94 % of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1,500 giant and major fields. [ 2 ] Most of the world's largest oilfields are located in the Middle East , but there are also supergiant (>10 billion bbls ) oilfields in Brazil, Mexico ...
The world's 932 giant oil and gas fields are considered those with 500 million barrels (79,000,000 m 3) of ultimately recoverable oil or gas equivalent. [1] Geoscientists believe these giants account for 40 percent of the world's petroleum reserves.
Some statistics on this page are disputed and controversial—different sources (OPEC, CIA World Factbook, oil companies) give different figures. Some of the differences reflect different types of oil included. Different estimates may or may not include oil shale, mined oil sands or natural gas liquids.
Countries where natural gas fields are located. This list of natural gas fields includes major fields of the past and present.. N.B. Some of the items listed are basins or projects that comprise many fields (e.g. Sakhalin has three fields: Chayvo, Odoptu, and Arkutun-Dagi).
Western Siberian plain on a satellite map of North Asia.. The West Siberian petroleum basin (also known as the West Siberian hydrocarbon province or Western Siberian oil basin) is the largest hydrocarbon (petroleum and natural gas) basin in the world covering an area of about 2.2 million km 2, and is also the largest oil and gas producing region in Russia.
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a large oil field on Alaska's North Slope. It is the largest oil field in North America, covering 213,543 acres (86,418 ha) and originally contained approximately 25 billion barrels (4.0 × 10 9 m 3 ) of oil. [ 1 ]
U.S. energy giant Chevron expects 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day from Kazakhstan's Tengiz oil field, which is among the world's biggest. Meanwhile, an Exxon executive downplayed hopes ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.