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natural gas field A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations. Such reservoirs form when kerogen (ancient plant matter) is created in surrounding rock by the prese ...
s 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).


25 largest conventional non-associated gas fields

''Table sources:'' Data was retrieved from, depletion levels from or calculated from open source production data. Notes: *Gasfields are non-associated gas and condensate fields. *Size refers to ultimate recoverable reserves (including past production) expressed in trillion cubic feet.


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Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
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Hassi R'mel Hassi R'Mel (, Berber language: Ḥasi Eṛṛmel) is a town in Algeria located near the 18th largest gas field worldwide. Hassi R'Mel is located in Laghouat Province northwest of Ghardaïa. It is the capital of Hassi R'Mel District. Hassi R'Me ...
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Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
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Bass Strait Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The ...
* Jansz () * Greater Gorgon () * Browse Venture ( *
North West Shelf Venture The North West Shelf Project (NWS), also known as the North West Shelf Venture, is an Australian resource development project, extracting natural gas from under the ocean from the North West Shelf off the coast of Western Australia. Running sinc ...
() * Yolla gas field * Fairview, Scotia, Spring Gully, Bowen Basin ;
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...
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Shah Deniz gas field Shah Deniz gas field () is the largest natural gas field in Azerbaijan. It is situated in the South Caspian Sea, off the coast of Azerbaijan, approximately southeast of Baku, at a depth of . The field covers approximately . Stretching out over 1 ...
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Bahrain Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it comprises a small archipelago of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island, which mak ...
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Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
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Margarita A margarita is a cocktail consisting of tequila, triple sec, and lime juice. Some margarita recipes include simple syrup as well and are often served with salt on the rim of the glass. Margaritas can be served either shaken with ice (on the rock ...
* Sabalo * Itaú-San Alberto ;
Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
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Albacora-Leste oil field The Albacora-Leste Oil Field is an oil field located in Campos Basin. It was discovered in 1986 and developed by Petrobras. The oil field is operated by Petrobras, that owns 90% of the field, while Repsol owns the remaining 10%. The total proven ...
() * Jupiter gas field (17 x 10¹²) cu ft ( 480 km3)) * Marlin gas field () *
Tupi oil field The Tupi oil field (reverted from Lula oil field) is a large oil field located in the Santos Basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The field was originally nicknamed in honor of the Tupi people and later named after the mollusc, how ...
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Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...
* Zawtica () * Shwe Gas (located in Rakhine state) ;
Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...
* Sable Offshore Energy Project * Elsuort () * Kopanoar () * King Kristian () * Greater Sierra * Hekla gas field (7.5 198 billion m3) * Drake Point () *
Medicine Hat Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, R ...
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Provost, Alberta Provost () is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is located at the junction of Highway 13 and Highway 899, west of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. History The town was originally named "Lakeview" but renamed by the Canadian Pacific Ra ...
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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
* Canxue gas field * Chunxiao gas field () * Duanqiao gas field *
Karamay Karamay (also spelled Karamai) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. It is surrounded on all sides by Tacheng Prefecture. The name of the city comes from the Uyghur langu ...
() * Shiyugou Dunxi () * Sulige () * Tianwaitian gas field ;
Cyprus Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Situated in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical orientation are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the List of isl ...
* Aphrodite gas field () * Calypso gas field () * Glaucos 1 gas field () * Onisiforos gas field () * Cronos 1 gas field () * Zeus 1 gas field () ;
Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
* Amistad gas field () ;
Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
* Nile Delta Basin () New finding in the Nile Delta Basin of ) ** Wakar () ** Temsah () ** Ras El Barr () **
Halawa Hālawa () is a census-designated place (CDP) in the ‘Ewa District of Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. Hālawa Stream branches into two valleys: North and South Hālawa; North Hālawa is the larger stream and fluvial feature. Their c ...
() ** Kafr Al Shaikh () ** Zohr () ;
Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...
* Ogaden Basin (, 68 million m3) ;
France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
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Lacq Lacq (; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2024, the former commune of Urdès was merged into Lacq. It lies just northwest of the prefecture (department capital) Pau. Economy In mo ...
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Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
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Makó gas field The Makó gas field (Makó Trough of the Pannonian Basin Gas Accumulation) is a large natural gas field next to Makó, in southeastern Hungary. Formation The worldwide interest in unconventional hydrocarbon accumulations has increased contin ...
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India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
* Krishna Godavari Basin KG-D6 gas field () ;
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
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Arun gas field The Arun gas field is a natural gas field located in the Aceh province on north Sumatra, Indonesia. It was discovered by Mobil Oil Corporation in 1971 and has been described as "the most lucrative LNG operation in the twentieth century." The f ...
(), depleted 14 sep 2015. * Mahakam gas field () * Peciko gas field () * Sakakemang gas field () * Tangguh gas field () * Tuna gas field ;
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
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South Pars The South Pars/North Dome field is a natural-gas condensate field located in the Persian Gulf. It is by far the world's largest natural gas field, IEA, World Energy Outlook 2008 - Chapter 12 - Natural gas resources and production prospects, p.29 ...
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North Pars North Pars Gas Field () is one of the biggest independent gas fields of the world. This field which was discovered in 1967 is located some 120 kilometers south east of Bushehr province in water depths of 2 to 30 meters in the Persian Gulf. In 19 ...
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Kish Gas Field Kish gas Field is a giant gas field close to Kish Island in the Persian Gulf. It is one of the NIOC Recent Discoveries which was discovered in 2006 and holds of gas in place of which is recoverable. The field also holds at least of condensate ...
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Golshan Gas Field The Golshan gas field is one of the NIOC Recent Discoveries which is located at approximately 180 km south east of Bushehr, 65 km offshore the Persian Gulf. The volume of gas in place (GIP) of the field is estimated at 42 to 56 TCF.POGC Websi O ...
(45 - ) * Tabnak () * Kangan () * Farsi (11-) * Nar () * Aghar () * Khangiran () * Ahwaz Field () *
Ferdowsi Gas Field The Ferdowsi Gas Field is one of the NIOC Recent Discoveries, located at approximately 190 kilometers southeast of Bushehr, 85 kilometers off the coast of Iran, in the Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf, sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, i ...
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Aghajari Field The National Iranian South Oilfields Company (NISOC) (, ''Shirkat-e Mily-e Minatâq-e Nuftxiz-e Jinvâb-e Iran'') is a government-owned corporation under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran, and operates as a subsidiary of Nation ...
() * Gachsaran Field () ;
Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...
* Kirkuk Field () * Akkas gas field () ;
Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...
* Corrib gas project () *
Kinsale Head gas field The Kinsale Head gas field is a depleted offshore natural gas field in the Celtic Sea, located off the southern coast of County Cork, Ireland. Discovered in 1971 near the Old Head of Kinsale, it met Ireland's gas needs until 1996. The gas fiel ...
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Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
* Noa North * Mari () * Tamar gas field () * Dalit () *
Leviathan gas field The Leviathan gas field is a large natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel, south-west of the Tamar gas field. The gas field is roughly west of Haifa in waters deep in the Levantine basin, a rich hydrocarbon area ...
() * Sarah and Myra * Dolphin * Tanin gas field ;
Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
* Malossa field * San Salvo field * San Giorgio field * Angeli field * Cassiopea gas field ;
Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
* Minami Kanto gas field (375 billion m3) ;
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
* Karachaganak field () * Kisimbay field () * Kyzyloi Field () * Tengiz Field ;
Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...
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Chekka Chekka is a coastal town located in North Lebanon. It is located north of Râs ach-Chaq’a’ and Herri beaches, or Theoprosopon of classical times and south of the ancient Phoenician port of Enfeh and the city of Tripoli. The origin of the wor ...
* Levant Basin Province (estimated total of this entire region ) within the territorial waters of Lebanon, Turkey, the Palestinian Gaza Strip, Israel, Syria, and Cyprus * North Levant Basin ;
Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...
* Khateyba () ;
Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...
* Chinguetti field (fairly large estimates) ;
Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
* Reynosa gas field *
Chicontepec Field The Chicontepec Basin (Chicontepec Formation) is a petroleum system in Mexico north-east of Mexico City, covering an area of around in the states of Veracruz, Puebla and Hidalgo. Several oil fields have been discovered in that area since 1926 ...
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Tabasco Tabasco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco, is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Tabasco, 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa. It i ...
* Noxal oil field () ;
Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...
* Collier gas field () ;
Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...
* Kudu gas field (1.3 – ) ;
Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
* Annerveen gas field *
Groningen Groningen ( , ; ; or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen (province), Groningen province in the Netherlands. Dubbed the "capital of the north", Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of ...
() - also known as Slochteren * L10 gas field ;
New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...
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Maui gas field The Maui natural gas field is the largest gas, natural gas condensate and oil field in New Zealand, producing nearly three-quarters of the country's hydrocarbons, as well as providing energy for electricity generation. It is located in the Tasma ...
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Kapuni Kapuni is an onshore natural gas-condensate field located in the Taranaki Basin, a ~100,000 km2 partially-inverted rift basin on the Taranaki Peninsula in the North Island, New Zealand. Discovered in 1959 and brought into production in 1970 ...
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Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
* Akpo * Bonga Field ;
North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. A sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Se ...
* Asgard field,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
() * Amethyst gasfield * Brent oilfield * Dan field * Easington Catchment Area * Ekofisk oil field,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
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Everest gasfield The Everest gasfield is located in the Central North Sea, east of Aberdeen, Scotland. It lies in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf blocks 22/9, 22/10a and 22/14a. The gasfield was discovered by Amoco in 1982 with first gas produced in 1993. ...
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Frigg gas field Frigg gas field is a natural gas field on Norwegian block 25/1 in the North Sea, on the boundary between the United Kingdom and Norway. The field is named after the goddess Frigg. King Olav V of Norway officially opened production on 8 May 1978. P ...
() * Gullfaks oil field () * Gullfaks Sor field () * Heimdal field () * Indefatigable field () * Kristin field () * Kvitebjon field () * Lemen Bank () * Mikkel field () * Eldfisk field () * Oseberg oil field,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
() * Rhum gasfield () *
Sleipner gas field Oil from the Sleipner field. The Sleipner gas field is a natural gas field in the block 15/9 of the North Sea, about west of Stavanger, Norway. Two parts of the field are in production, Sleipner West (proven in 1974), and Sleipner East (1981) ...
() * Snorre oil field () * Statfjord oil field () *
Troll A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human bei ...
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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
* Valhall oil field () * Viking field () * Visund field () ;
Norwegian Sea The Norwegian Sea (; ; ) is a marginal sea, grouped with either the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Norway between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea, adjoining the Barents Sea to the northeast. In the southwest, it is separate ...
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Barents Sea The Barents Sea ( , also ; , ; ) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.World Wildlife Fund, 2008. It was known earlier among Russi ...
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Heidrun oil field upOil from the Heidrun field. The Heidrun oil field is an oil and gas field discovered in 1985 in the Norwegian sector of the Norwegian Sea, named after the goat Heiðrún from Norse mythology. The field lies north of Kristiansund. It has pro ...
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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
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Snøhvit Snøhvit ''()'' is the name of a natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea, situated northwest of Hammerfest, Norway. The northern part of the Norwegian Sea is often described as the Barents Sea by offshore petroleum companies. ''Snøhvit'' is al ...
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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
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Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
(~1012m3) * Adhi Oil and Gas Field *
Badin Badin ( Sindhi and ) is the main city and capital of Badin District in Sindh, Pakistan. It lies east of the Indus River. It is the 105th largest city in Pakistan. Badin is often called 'Sugar State' due to its production of sugar. Badin Dist ...
* Bhit gas field * Khasan gas field * Kadanwari * Kandkhot field () * Khan field * Mari field * Miano gas field * Mizra field * Qadirpur gas field * Sawan Gas Field () * Sui gas field () * Toot gas field * Ul Haq field () * Zamzama field ;Palestine ( Gaza) * Gaza marine gas field ;
Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
* Camisea Gas Project ;
Qatar Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Geography of Qatar, Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares Qatar–Saudi Arabia border, its sole land b ...
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Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
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Transylvanian Basin The Transylvanian Plateau (; ) is a plateau in central Romania. Description The plateau lies within and takes its name from the historical region of Transylvania, and is almost entirely surrounded by the Eastern, Southern and Romanian Weste ...
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Filitelnic gas field The Filitelnic gas field is a natural gas field in the Filitelnic village of Bălăușeri commune, Mureș County, Romania lying in the center of the Transylvanian Basin, a major natural gas-producing region. It was discovered in 1958 and is develo ...
() * Carpathian oil basin ** Grădiștea gas field () ** Mamu gas field () * Bacău oil basin ** Roman-Secuieni gas field () *
Pannonian Basin The Pannonian Basin, with the term Carpathian Basin being sometimes preferred in Hungarian literature, is a large sedimentary basin situated in southeastern Central Europe. After the Treaty of Trianon following World War I, the geomorpholog ...
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Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...
* Urengoy gas field () * Yamburg gas field () * Bovanenkovskoe field () * Leningradskoye field () * Rusanovskoye field () * Zapolyarnoye gas field () * Shtokman field () * Arctic field () * Astrakhanskoye field () * West Kamchatka shelf () * Medvezhye field () * Yurubchen () * Kharasoveiskoye field () * Orenburgskoe field () * Kovykta field () * Kyrtael field () * Sakhalin-III () * Chayandinskoye field () * Angaro-Lenskoye field () * Central-Astrakhan field () * Yuzhno-Russkoye field () * South-Tambey field () * Krusenstern field () * North-Tambey field () * Kharampurskoye field () * Pestsovoe field () * Utrenneye field () * Malyginskoye field () * Yurkharovskoye field () * Harvutinskoye field () * North-Urengoy field () * Ledovoe field () * Samburg field () * Sakhalin-II () * Kamennomysskoye field () *
Sakhalin-I The Sakhalin-I () project, a sister project to Sakhalin-II, is a consortium for production of oil and gas on Sakhalin, Sakhalin Island and immediately offshore. It operates three natural gas field, fields in the Okhotsk Sea: Chayvo, Odoptu, and ...
() * Tasiyskoye field () * Yamsoveiskoye gas field () * East-Tarkosalinskoye field () * Aneryahinskoye field () * Gubkinskoye field () * Vuktyl () *
Beregovoye field The Beregovoye Field is a natural gas field in the northeast of Purovsky District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The field is developed by Sibneftegaz, a joint venture of Novatek and Itera. Sibneftegaz holds the exploration and devel ...
() * Yubileynoye field () * Hvalynskoye field () * Tarkosalinskoye () * North-Kamennomysskoye field () * Ety-Purovskoye Field () * Vyngapurovskoye field () * Nahodkinskoe field () * Pelyadkinskoe field () * Lyantorskoye field () * West-Astrakhan field () * Severo-Stavropolskoye field () * Nurminskoye field () * Ludlovskoye field () * Geophisicheskoye field () * Verhneviluchanskoye field () * Minkhovskoye field () * Novo Portovskoye field () * Yen-Yahinskoye field () * West-Siyakhinskoye field () * North-Komsomolskoye field () * Sredne-Tyugskoye field () * Soletsko-Khanaveyskoye field () * Layavozhskoye field () * Gydanskoye field () * Tas-Yuryakhskoye field () * Hancheiskoye field () * Verhnetiuteyskoye field () * Vyngayahinskoye field () * Myldzhinskoye field () * Messoyakha Gas Field () ;
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...
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Ghawar Field Ghawar (Arabic: الغوار) is an oil field located in Al-Ahsa Governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Measuring (some ), it is by far the largest conventional oil field in the world, and accounts for roughly a third of the cumulative ...
() ; Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone * Dorra () ; Saudi-Kuwaiti neutral zone * Safaniya-Khafji Field () ;
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
* Donghae-1 ;
Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...
* Levant Basin province (estimated total of this entire region ) within the territorial waters of Syria, the Palestinian Gaza Strip, Israel, Lebanon, and Cyprus * The
Leviathan gas field The Leviathan gas field is a large natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel, south-west of the Tamar gas field. The gas field is roughly west of Haifa in waters deep in the Levantine basin, a rich hydrocarbon area ...
located off the coast of
Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
and Palestine ( Gaza), and possibly Lebanon ;
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...
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Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...
* Komsomolsk gas field () ;
Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
* Sakarya () * Tuna-1 () ;
Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...
* Iolotan gas field () * Dauletabad gas field () * Shatlyk gas field () * Achak gas field () * South Gutliyak gas field ;
Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
* Efremovske field () * Shebeli field () * West-Khrestish field () ;
United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a Federal monarchy, federal elective monarchy made up of Emirates of the United Arab E ...
* Rub Al Khali Province () part of Rub Al Khali province is in the territory of the United Arab Emirates ;
United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
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Anadarko Basin The Anadarko Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin centered in the western part of the state of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and extending into southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado. The basin covers an area of . By t ...
() *
Barnett Shale The Barnett Shale is a geological formation located in the Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin. It consists of sedimentary rocks dating from the Mississippian period (354–323 million years ago) in Texas. The formation underlies the city of Fort Worth ...
ewark East Gas Field() *
Carthage Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classic ...
Gas Field () * Cisco Springs Oil Field (13-) *
Fayetteville Shale The Fayetteville Shale is a geologic formation (geology), formation of Mississippian age (354–323 million years ago) composed of tight shale within the Arkoma Basin of Arkansas and Oklahoma. It is named for the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas, an ...
() * Gomez Gas Field () *
Haynesville Shale The Haynesville Shale is an informal, popular name for a Jurassic Period rock formation that underlies large parts of southwestern Arkansas, northwest Louisiana, and East Texas. It lies at depths of 10,500 to 13,000 feet below the land’s surfac ...
() * Hugoton Natural Gas Area () * Jonah Gas Field () * Katy Gas Field () *
Kettleman North Dome Oil Field The Kettleman North Dome Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in Kings County, California, Kings and Fresno County, California, Fresno counties, California. Discovered in 1928, it is the fifteenth largest field in the state by total ultimate oil ...
() * Kenai Field () *
Marcellus Shale Marcellus may refer to: People * Marcellus (name) * Marcellus of Ancyra, fourth-century Christian bishop and theologian * Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman commander * Marcellus of Tangier * Marcellus Empiricus * Marcellus (nephew of Augustu ...
(168-) billion m3) * McFaddin Oil & Gas Field () * Mocane-Laverne Gas Area (Part of Anadarko Basin) *
Monroe Monroe or Monroes may refer to: People and fictional characters * Monroe (surname) * Monroe (given name) * James Monroe, 5th President of the United States * Marilyn Monroe, actress and model Places United States * Monroe, Arkansas, an unincorp ...
Gas Field () * Old Ocean Gas Field () * Point Thomson () * Prudhoe Bay () * Rio Vista Gas Field () * South Pass Field * Tom O'Connor Oil & Gas Field () *
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Block 14 () * Wamsutter Gas Field ;
Uzbekistan , image_flag = Flag of Uzbekistan.svg , image_coat = Emblem of Uzbekistan.svg , symbol_type = Emblem of Uzbekistan, Emblem , national_anthem = "State Anthem of Uzbekistan, State Anthem of the Republ ...
* Shurtan () * Gazli () * Zevardi () * Alan gas field () * Dengizkul-Khauzak ( KKSK project) () * Kandym ( KKSK project) () * Kokdamulak () * Urtabulak gas field () * Urga/Kuanysh/Akchalak () ;
Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
* Deltana Platform (); see also:
Orinoco Belt The Orinoco Belt is a territory in the southern strip of the eastern Orinoco River Basin in Venezuela which overlies the world's largest deposits of petroleum. Its local Spanish name is ''Faja Petrolífera del Orinoco'' (Orinoco Petroleum Belt). ...
* Perla gas field () ;
Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
* Baovang ()


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South Pars Gas Field The South Pars/North Dome field is a natural-gas condensate field located in the Persian Gulf. It is by far the world's largest natural gas field, IEA, World Energy Outlook 2008 - Chapter 12 - Natural gas resources and production prospects, p.29 ...
(10000 - 15000) # Urengoy gas field (10200) #
Marcellus shale Marcellus may refer to: People * Marcellus (name) * Marcellus of Ancyra, fourth-century Christian bishop and theologian * Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman commander * Marcellus of Tangier * Marcellus Empiricus * Marcellus (nephew of Augustu ...
(4452–13674) #
Haynesville Shale The Haynesville Shale is an informal, popular name for a Jurassic Period rock formation that underlies large parts of southwestern Arkansas, northwest Louisiana, and East Texas. It lies at depths of 10,500 to 13,000 feet below the land’s surfac ...
(7079) # Iolotan gas field (7000) # Yamburg gas field (5242) # Bovanenkovskoe field (4400) # Leningradskoye field (4000) # Rusanovskoye field (4000) # Zapolyarnoye gas field (3500) # Shtokman field (3200) # Point Tomson (3000) # Manas (3000) #
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(2850) # Astrakhanskoye field (2711) #
Anadarko Basin The Anadarko Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin centered in the western part of the state of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and extending into southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado. The basin covers an area of . By t ...
(2650) #
Hassi R'mel Hassi R'Mel (, Berber language: Ḥasi Eṛṛmel) is a town in Algeria located near the 18th largest gas field worldwide. Hassi R'Mel is located in Laghouat Province northwest of Ghardaïa. It is the capital of Hassi R'Mel District. Hassi R'Me ...
(2549) # West Kamchatka shelf (2300) # Medvezhye field (2200) # Yurubchen (2100) # Hugoton Natural Gas Area (2039) # Kharasoveiskoye field (1900) # Orenburgskoe field (1900) # Kovykta field (1900) # Karachaganak field,
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
(1800) # Dauletabad gas field (1602) # Jupiter gas field (1000–1600) # Kyrtael field (1600) #
North Pars North Pars Gas Field () is one of the biggest independent gas fields of the world. This field which was discovered in 1967 is located some 120 kilometers south east of Bushehr province in water depths of 2 to 30 meters in the Persian Gulf. In 19 ...
(1565) #
Kish Gas Field Kish gas Field is a giant gas field close to Kish Island in the Persian Gulf. It is one of the NIOC Recent Discoveries which was discovered in 2006 and holds of gas in place of which is recoverable. The field also holds at least of condensate ...
(1560) #
Ghawar Field Ghawar (Arabic: الغوار) is an oil field located in Al-Ahsa Governorate, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Measuring (some ), it is by far the largest conventional oil field in the world, and accounts for roughly a third of the cumulative ...
(1500) # Kyzyloi Field (1420) # Pazanun (1415) # Elsuort (more than 1400) #
Golshan Gas Field The Golshan gas field is one of the NIOC Recent Discoveries which is located at approximately 180 km south east of Bushehr, 65 km offshore the Persian Gulf. The volume of gas in place (GIP) of the field is estimated at 42 to 56 TCF.POGC Websi O ...
(1325) #
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(1325) # Sakhalin-III (1300) # Chayandinskoye field (1240) # Angaro-Lenskoye field (1220) #
Shah Deniz gas field Shah Deniz gas field () is the largest natural gas field in Azerbaijan. It is situated in the South Caspian Sea, off the coast of Azerbaijan, approximately southeast of Baku, at a depth of . The field covers approximately . Stretching out over 1 ...
(1200) # Central-Astrakhan field (1200) # Shatlyk gas field (1200) # Urtga/Kuanysh/Akchalak (1200) # Shebeli field (1200) #
Chicontepec Field The Chicontepec Basin (Chicontepec Formation) is a petroleum system in Mexico north-east of Mexico City, covering an area of around in the states of Veracruz, Puebla and Hidalgo. Several oil fields have been discovered in that area since 1926 ...
(1100) # Greater Gorgon (1100) # Dorra (1000) # Yuzhno-Russkoye field (1000) # South-Tambey field (1000) #
Dazhou Dazhou ( zh, s= 达州 , t= 達州 , p=Dázhōu , w=Ta-chou) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast corner of Sichuan province, China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Chongqing to the east and south. As of 2020 census, Dazhou was home t ...
(600) # Krusenstern field (960) # North-Tambey field (929) #
North West Shelf Venture The North West Shelf Project (NWS), also known as the North West Shelf Venture, is an Australian resource development project, extracting natural gas from under the ocean from the North West Shelf off the coast of Western Australia. Running sinc ...
(875) # Kharampurskoye field (825) # Mahakam gas field (822) # Pestsovoe field (800) # Utrenneye field (747) # Malyginskoye field (745) # Yurkharovskoye field (740) # Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (736) # Harvutinskoye field (700) # Shurtan (634) # North-Urengoy field (600) # Jansz (570) # Tabnak (562) #
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(540) # Sulige (534) # Kangan (533) # Avali (530) # Samburg field (500) # Sakhalin-II (500) # Tangguh gas field (500) # Kamennomysskoye field (500) # Ledovoe field (500) #
Sakhalin-I The Sakhalin-I () project, a sister project to Sakhalin-II, is a consortium for production of oil and gas on Sakhalin, Sakhalin Island and immediately offshore. It operates three natural gas field, fields in the Okhotsk Sea: Chayvo, Odoptu, and ...
(485) # Gazli (477) # Lemen Bank (460) # Tasiyskoye field (440) # Yamsoveiskoye gas field (436) # Farsi (425) # Ormen Lange (400) # Aneryahinskoye field (400) # Gubkinskoye field (400) # Vuktyl (390) # Minami Kanto gas field (375) # Cisco Springs Oil Field (370) # Katie field (362) # Kettlemen Hills field (362) # Kamrik (360) # Kandkhot field (347) # Nar (345) # West-Khrestish field (335) # Indefatigable field (333) # Kopanoar (331) # King Kristian (330) # Safaniya-Khafji Field (327) # Beregovoe field (324) # Yubileynoye field (323) # Hvalynskoye field (322) # Tarkosalinskoye (322) # Kisimbay field (310) # North-Kamennomysskoye field (310) # Aghar (307) # Jonah Field (300) # Ety-Purovskoye Field (300) # Khangiran (300) # Khateyba (300) # Ahwaz Field (300) # Baovang (300) #
Ferdowsi Gas Field The Ferdowsi Gas Field is one of the NIOC Recent Discoveries, located at approximately 190 kilometers southeast of Bushehr, 85 kilometers off the coast of Iran, in the Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf, sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, i ...
(297) # Komsomolsk gas field (296) # Vyngapurovskoye field (290) # Gomez gas field (283) # Nahodkinskoe field (275) # Pelyadkinskoe field (255) #
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(250) # Lyantorskoye field (250) # West-Astrakhan field (250) # Severo-Stavropolskoye field (229) # Asgard field (226) # Zawtica (225) # Nurminskoye field (223) # Zevardi (220) # Ludlovskoye field (220) # Geophisicheskoye field (210) # Verhneviluchanskoye field (209) # Minkhovskoye field (208) # Novo Portovskoye field (200) # Yen-Yahinskoye field (200) #
Frigg gas field Frigg gas field is a natural gas field on Norwegian block 25/1 in the North Sea, on the boundary between the United Kingdom and Norway. The field is named after the goddess Frigg. King Olav V of Norway officially opened production on 8 May 1978. P ...
(200) # Hekla gas field (198) # Shiyugou Dunxi (198) # West-Siyakhinskoye field (190) # North-Komsomolskoye field (186) # Ekofisk oil field (185) # Scott reef (180) # Alan gas field (179) #
Sleipner gas field Oil from the Sleipner field. The Sleipner gas field is a natural gas field in the block 15/9 of the North Sea, about west of Stavanger, Norway. Two parts of the field are in production, Sleipner West (proven in 1974), and Sleipner East (1981) ...
(174) # Dengizkul-Khauzak (167) # Amistad gas field (163) # Sredne-Tyugskoye field (165) # Peciko field (162) # Deltana Platform (160) # Soletsko-Khanaveyskoye field (155) # Kandym (153) # Kenai (152) # Achak gas field (150) #
Albacora-Leste oil field The Albacora-Leste Oil Field is an oil field located in Campos Basin. It was discovered in 1986 and developed by Petrobras. The oil field is operated by Petrobras, that owns 90% of the field, while Repsol owns the remaining 10%. The total proven ...
(150) # Kokdamulak (144) # Drake Point (142) # Tamar 1 (142) # Mokane Lavern (140) #
Snøhvit Snøhvit ''()'' is the name of a natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea, situated northwest of Hammerfest, Norway. The northern part of the Norwegian Sea is often described as the Barents Sea by offshore petroleum companies. ''Snøhvit'' is al ...
(140) # Layavozhskoye field (140) #
Arun gas field The Arun gas field is a natural gas field located in the Aceh province on north Sumatra, Indonesia. It was discovered by Mobil Oil Corporation in 1971 and has been described as "the most lucrative LNG operation in the twentieth century." The f ...
(125) # Gydanskoye field (116) # Tas-Yuryakhskoye field (112) # Hancheiskoye (111) # Efremovske field (110) # Vyngayahinskoye field (107) # Ras El Barr (106) # Urtabulak gas field (103) # Oseberg oil field (102) # Myldzhinskoye field (100) #
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(100) # Messoyakha Gas Field (100) # Kudu gas field (34 – 240) #
Barnett Shale The Barnett Shale is a geological formation located in the Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin. It consists of sedimentary rocks dating from the Mississippian period (354–323 million years ago) in Texas. The formation underlies the city of Fort Worth ...
(60 - 900) # Sui Gas Field (50–60)


See also

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Oil fields A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations. Such reservoirs form when kerogen (ancient plant matter) is created in surrounding rock by the presen ...
* Giant oil and gas fields *
List of countries by natural gas proven reserves This list is based on the ''CIA World Factbook'' (when no citation is given).List of countries by natural gas production This is a list of countries by natural gas production based on statistics from The U.S Energy Information Administration (EIA). Natural Gas in this list means dry natural gas; which is used in homes and business for heating, cooling, cooking ...
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National Oil Company A national oil company (NOC) is a petroleum company that is fully or partly owned by the government of a sovereign nation. NOCs produce about half the world’s oil and gas. Due to their increasing dominance over global reserves, the importance ...


References

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Natural gas fields A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in Porosity, porous or fractured rock formations. Such reservoirs form when kerogen (ancient plant matter) is created in surrounding rock by t ...
Natural gas fields A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in Porosity, porous or fractured rock formations. Such reservoirs form when kerogen (ancient plant matter) is created in surrounding rock by t ...
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