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Oil and gas around the world

Petroleum and natural-gas deposits, reserves, and trade, published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

World map of assessed shale-gas basins from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, with white and grey countries and maroon and yellow basin polygons

Map key

  • Assessed basins with a resource estimate
  • Assessed basins without a resource estimate
  • Countries within the scope of the report

Assessed shale-gas basins, cropped from a public-domain map of the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Map: cropped from the U.S. Energy Information Administration public-domain map of assessed shale-gas basins.

Subsurface 2023-2024 EIA

The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes international energy statistics, country analyses, and maps of oil and gas. The U.S. Geological Survey world petroleum assessments estimate undiscovered resources that are technically recoverable. Together the series cover deposits, reserves, and trade.

How to read it

Reserves are the amounts judged economic at today’s prices and with today’s technology. Resources are the larger geologic quantities, with wider uncertainty. A colored basin on this map is an assessed shale-gas area. Pipelines and liquefied natural gas carry gas from the country that produces it to the country that burns it.

Caveats

Countries prepare their own reserve reports, and those reports follow each country’s rules as well as the geology. Figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration are among the most transparent public series. The public tables give national totals and assessed basins.

Sources

License

Works of the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey are U.S. government works in the public domain. The preview is cropped from the Administration’s public-domain map of assessed shale-gas basins. Current oil and gas maps and tables are on the Administration’s international pages.

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