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Using a geology-based method, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that 33 geologic provinces of Southeast Asia hold a mean of 10.5 billion barrels of oil and 271.5 trillion cubic feet of gas that are undiscovered and technically recoverable, in conventional accumulations.

The assessment

The assessment covers 48 assessment units (AUs) in 34 total petroleum systems, each assessed for undiscovered conventional oil, gas and natural gas liquids.

Most of these provinces have a long history of exploration, discovery and production. In the ten years since the previous USGS assessment (2010), exploration successes and failures and a fresh look at the geology lowered the overall estimate — as expected, given how thoroughly many of the provinces have been explored. Still, high potential remains, especially for conventional gas.

Continuous (unconventional) resources — shale oil, shale gas, tight gas and coalbed gas — have been assessed separately in several provinces, and are substantially smaller than the conventional resources.

Seven province groups

The region's basins have complex tectonic histories and petroleum systems. For reporting, the 33 provinces were put into seven groups by broad landform character rather than strict geology:

Map of Southeast Asia, from Burma to the Philippines and Indonesia, with the 33 geologic provinces shaded in seven colours by province group.

Figure 1. The 33 geologic provinces and 7 province groups assessed. Base map from the National Park Service.

Province groupProvinces
Sunda-Java-Burma Arc-RelatedIrrawaddy, Indo-Burman, North Sumatra Basin, Central Sumatra Basin, South Sumatra Basin, Northwest Java Basin, East Java Basin, South Makassar Basin, Sumatra-Java Forearc Basins
SundalandThai Cenozoic Basins, Thai Basin, Malay Basin, Cuu Long Basin, Nam Con Son Basin, Greater Sarawak Basin, East Natuna Basin, Penyu/West Natuna Basin
Red River Fault ZoneSong Hong Basin, Phu Khanh Basin
Southeast ChinaPearl River Mouth Basin, Qiongdongnan Basin, Taixinan Basin, Beibuwan Basin
Borneo-KalimantanSouth China Sea Platform, Baram Delta/Brunei-Sabah Basin, Tarakan Basin, Kutei Basin, Barito Basin
PhilippinePalawan Shelf, Sulu Sea Basin, Cagayan Basin, Visayan Basin
Triassic TPSKhorat Plateau, Tonle Sap-Phnom Penh Basin

Results

Fully risked mean estimates by province group:

Province groupOil (million barrels)Gas (billion cubic feet)NGL (million barrels)
Sunda-Java-Burma Arc-Related3,60171,4711,045
Sundaland1,86657,961884
Red River Fault Zone23126,085339
Southeast China1,76518,999316
Borneo-Kalimantan2,90675,2591,285
Philippine12719,207408
Triassic TPS352,4799
Total10,531271,4614,286
TotalsMeanRange (F95–F5)
Oil10,531 million barrels (10.5 billion)4,998–17,802 million
Gas271,461 billion cubic feet (271.5 trillion)129,043–465,177 billion
Natural gas liquids4,286 million barrels (4.3 billion)1,970–7,337 million

F95 is the amount with a 95-percent chance of being there; F5, a 5-percent chance. The width of the range reflects geologic uncertainty.

Sources

  • Schenk, C.J., Mercier, T.J., Woodall, C.A., Leathers-Miller, H.M., Finn, T.M., Le, P.A., Brownfield, M.E., Marra, K.R., and Ellis, G.S., 2020 (version 1.1, November 2020), Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources of Southeast Asia, 2020: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2020–3046. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/fs20203046
  • The map and the results by province group come from the fact sheet's PDF, which the web version garbles.
  • Rewritten in hubnx's own words.
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