Offshore | World-Class Prospects | Basin Potential USGS |
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Basin Potential United States Geological Survey (USGS) |
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Ranks 2nd for oil among the world's unexplored basins | |||
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Ranks 12th for oil among all the world's basins-explored and unexplored | |||
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The mean (P50%) undiscovered resource potential estimated at 15.2 billion bbls of oil | |||
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117 fields >1 million bbls of recoverable oil | |||
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24 fields with >100 million bbls of recoverable oil (elephants) | |||
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6 fields have >500 million bbls of recoverable oil (giants) | |||
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83% of the resource in offshore Lower Tertiary to Cretaceous turbidite fans—the #1 play type in circum-Atlantic basins such as offshore Brazil and West Africa | |||
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Ranks 27th for gas in the world with undiscovered resource potential of 42 trillion cubic ft in 30 fields | |||
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Ranks 15th in the world for undiscovered oil and gas potential | |||
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| Mean Undiscovered Oil | ||
| Rank | Country | bbls |
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 87.1 |
| 2 | USA | 83.0 |
| 3 | Russia | 77.4 |
| 4 | Iran | 53.1 |
| 5 | Greenland | 47.1 |
| 6 | Brazil | 46.7 |
| 7 | Iraq | 45.1 |
| 8 | Nigeria | 37.6 |
| 9 | Kazakhstan | 21.1 |
| 10 | Mexico | 20.6 |
| 11 | Venezuela | 19.7 |
| 12 | Guyana-Suriname | 15.2 |
| 13 | Angola | 14.5 |
| 22 | UK | 6.3 |
| 35 | Canada | 2.8 |
| Source: USGS World Petroleum Assessment 2000 | ||
