List of natural gas fields

This list of natural gas fields includes major fields of the past and present.

Countries where natural gas fields are located

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).

Largest non-associated gas fields

No.Field nameCountry Recoverable reserves[1]
1South Pars Iran and  Qatar1,235×10^12 cu ft 35,000 km3
2Urengoy Russia222×10^12 cu ft 6,300 km3
3Yamburg Russia138×10^12 cu ft 3,900 km3
4Hassi R’Mel Algeria123×10^12 cu ft 3,500 km3
5Shtokman Russia110×10^12 cu ft 3,100 km3
6Galkynysh Turkmenistan98×10^12 cu ft 2,800 km3
7Zapolyarnoye Russia95×10^12 cu ft 2,700 km3
8Hugoton USA81×10^12 cu ft 2,300 km3
9Groningen Netherlands73×10^12 cu ft 2,100 km3
10Bovanenkovo Russia70×10^12 cu ft 2,000 km3
11Medvezhye Russia68×10^12 cu ft 1,900 km3
12Dauletabad Turkmenistan49.5×10^12 cu ft 1,400 km3
13Karachaganak Kazakhstan48.4×10^12 cu ft 1,370 km3
14North Pars Iran47.2×10^12 cu ft 1,340 km3
15Kish Iran45×10^12 cu ft 1,300 km3
16Orenburg Russia45×10^12 cu ft 1,300 km3
17Kharasavey Russia42×10^12 cu ft 1,200 km3
18Shah Deniz Azerbaijan42×10^12 cu ft 1,200 km3
19Golshan Iran30×10^12 cu ft 850 km3
20Zohr[2] Egypt30×10^12 cu ft 850 km3
21Tabnak Iran22×10^12 cu ft 620 km3
22Kangan Iran20×10^12 cu ft 570 km3

Table sources:

Global Natural Gas Reserves – A Heuristic Viewpoint[3]

Notes:

  • Gasfields are non-associated gas and condensate fields.
  • Size refers to ultimate recoverable reserves (including past production) expressed in trillion cubic feet.

By location

Albania
  • Manas (113×10^12 cu ft (3,200 km3))
Algeria
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
  • Awali (20×10^12 cu ft (570 km3))
Bolivia (~1.5×1012 m³)
Brazil
  • Albacora-Leste oil field (5.7×10^12 cu ft (160 km3))
  • Jupiter gas field (48 x 10¹²)[4] cu ft ( 1700 km³))
  • Marlin gas field (3.8×10^12 cu ft (110 km3))
  • Tupi oil field (7×10^12 cu ft (200 km3))
Burma
  • Zawtica (8.5×10^12 cu ft (240 km3))
  • Shwe Gas (located in Rakhine state)
Canada
China
  • Canxue gas field
  • Chunxiao gas field (0.17×10^12 cu ft (4.8 km3))
  • Dazhou (23-132×10^12 cu ft (3,700 km3))
  • Duanqiao gas field
  • Karamay (1.1×10^12 cu ft (31 km3))
  • Shiyugou Dunxi (7.5×10^12 cu ft (210 km3))
  • Sulige (20×10^12 cu ft (570 km3))
  • Tianwaitian gas field
Cyprus
  • Levant Basin (estimated total of this entire region is 122×10^12 cu ft (3,500 km3))[5][6]
  • Aphrodite gas field (5×10^12 cu ft (140 km3))
  • Calypso gas field (8×10^12 cu ft (230 km3))
  • Glaucos 1 gas field (5×10^12–8×10^12 cu ft (140–230 km3))
  • Onisiforos gas field (0.5×10^12 cu ft (14 km3))
Ecuador
  • Amistad gas field (9.8×10^12 cu ft (280 km3))
Egypt

New finding in the Nile Delta Basin of 223×10^12 cu ft (6,300 km3))

    • Wakar (1.5×10^12 cu ft (42 km3))
    • Temsah (1.5×10^12 cu ft (42 km3))
    • Ras El Barr (4×10^12 cu ft (110 km3))
    • Halawa (1×10^12 cu ft (28 km3))
    • Kafr Al Shaikh (2×10^12 cu ft (57 km3))
    • Zohr (30×10^12 cu ft (850 km3))
Ethiopia
  • Ogaden Basin (2.4×10^9 cu ft (68,000,000 m3), 68×106m³)
France
  • Lacq (9×10^12 cu ft (250 km3))
Hungary
India
Indonesia
  • Arun gas field (5×10^12 cu ft (140 km3)) , depleted 14 sep 2015.[7][8]
  • Mahakam gas field (31×10^12 cu ft (880 km3))
  • Peciko field (6.1×10^12 cu ft (170 km3))
  • Sakakemang gas field (2×10^12 cu ft (57 km3))
  • Tangguh gas field (14×10^12 cu ft (400 km3))
Iran
  • South Pars (500×10^12 cu ft (14,000 km3))
  • North Pars (59×10^12 cu ft (1,700 km3))
  • Kish Gas Field (58×10^12 cu ft (1,600 km3))
  • Golshan Gas Field (45 - 55×10^12 cu ft (1,600 km3))
  • Tabnak (21.2×10^12 cu ft (600 km3))
  • Kangan (20.1×10^12 cu ft (570 km3))
  • Farsi (11-22×10^12 cu ft (620 km3))
  • Nar (13×10^12 cu ft (370 km3))
  • Aghar (11.6×10^12 cu ft (330 km3))
  • Khangiran (11×10^12 cu ft (310 km3))
  • Ahwaz Field (11×10^12 cu ft (310 km3))
  • Ferdowsi Gas Field (10×10^12 cu ft (280 km3))
  • Aghajari Field (10×10^12 cu ft (280 km3))
  • Gachsaran Field (6×10^12 cu ft (170 km3))
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
  • Malossa field
  • San Salvo field
  • San Giorgio field
  • Angeli field
  • Cassiopea gas field[11]
Japan
Kazakhstan
Lebanon
  • Chekka [12]
  • Levant Basin Province (estimated total of this entire region 122×10^12 cu ft (3,500 km3)) within the territorial waters of Lebanon, the Palestinian Gaza Strip, Israel, Syria, and Cyprus[5]
  • North Levant Basin[13]
Libya
  • Khateyba (11×10^12 cu ft (310 km3))
Mauritania
Mexico
Mozambique
Namibia
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
North Sea
Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea (Norwegian part of the Barents Sea only)
Pakistan (~1012m³)
Palestine (Gaza)
Peru
Qatar
Romania (~600×109m³)
Russia
  • Urengoy gas field (385×10^12 cu ft (10,900 km3))
  • Yamburg gas field (198×10^12 cu ft (5,600 km3))
  • Bovanenkovskoe field (166×10^12 cu ft (4,700 km3))
  • Leningradskoye field (151×10^12 cu ft (4,300 km3))
  • Rusanovskoye field (151×10^12 cu ft (4,300 km3))
  • Zapolyarnoye gas field (132×10^12 cu ft (3,700 km3))
  • Shtokman field (113×10^12 cu ft (3,200 km3))
  • Arctic field (104×10^12 cu ft (2,900 km3))
  • Astrakhanskoye field (102×10^12 cu ft (2,900 km3))
  • West Kamchatka shelf (868×10^12 cu ft (24,600 km3))
  • Medvezhye field (83×10^12 cu ft (2,400 km3))
  • Yurubchen (73.7×10^12 cu ft (2,090 km3))
  • Kharasoveiskoye field (62.5×10^12 cu ft (1,770 km3))
  • Orenburgskoe field (62.5×10^12 cu ft (1,770 km3))
  • Kovykta field (62.5×10^12 cu ft (1,770 km3))
  • Kyrtael field (60×10^12 cu ft (1,700 km3))
  • Sakhalin-III (49×10^12 cu ft (1,400 km3))
  • Chayandinskoye field (46.8×10^12 cu ft (1,330 km3))
  • Angaro-Lenskoye field (46×10^12 cu ft (1,300 km3))
  • Central-Astrakhan field (45×10^12 cu ft (1,300 km3))
  • Yuzhno-Russkoye field (35×10^12 cu ft (990 km3))
  • South-Tambey field (35×10^12 cu ft (990 km3))
  • Krusenstern field (34×10^12 cu ft (960 km3))
  • North-Tambey field (35×10^12 cu ft (990 km3))
  • Kharampurskoye field (32×10^12 cu ft (910 km3))
  • Pestsovoe field (30×10^12 cu ft (850 km3))
  • Utrenneye field (28×10^12 cu ft (790 km3))
  • Malyginskoye field (28×10^12 cu ft (790 km3))
  • Yurkharovskoye field (26×10^12 cu ft (740 km3))
  • Harvutinskoye field (26×10^12 cu ft (740 km3))
  • North-Urengoy field (21×10^12 cu ft (590 km3))
  • Ledovoe field (19×10^12 cu ft (540 km3))
  • Samburg field (19×10^12 cu ft (540 km3))
  • Sakhalin-II (18.8×10^12 cu ft (530 km3))
  • Kamennomysskoye field (19×10^12 cu ft (540 km3))
  • Sakhalin-I (17.1×10^12 cu ft (480 km3))
  • Tasiyskoye field (16.6×10^12 cu ft (470 km3))
  • Yamsoveiskoye gas field (15×10^12 cu ft (420 km3))
  • East-Tarkosalinskoye field (15×10^12 cu ft (420 km3))
  • Aneryahinskoye field (15×10^12 cu ft (420 km3))
  • Gubkinskoye field (15×10^12 cu ft (420 km3))
  • Vuktyl (14.7×10^12 cu ft (420 km3))
  • Beregovoye field (12.2×10^12 cu ft (350 km3))
  • Yubileynoye field (12.2×10^12 cu ft (350 km3))
  • Hvalynskoye field (12.2×10^12 cu ft (350 km3))
  • Tarkosalinskoye (12.2×10^12 cu ft (350 km3))
  • North-Kamennomysskoye field (12×10^12 cu ft (340 km3))
  • Ety-Purovskoye Field (11×10^12 cu ft (310 km3))
  • Vyngapurovskoye field (11×10^12 cu ft (310 km3))
  • Nahodkinskoe field (10×10^12 cu ft (280 km3))
  • Pelyadkinskoe field (9.5×10^12 cu ft (270 km3))
  • Lyantorskoye field (9.4×10^12 cu ft (270 km3))
  • West-Astrakhan field (9.4×10^12 cu ft (270 km3))
  • Severo-Stavropolskoye field (8.6×10^12 cu ft (240 km3))
  • Nurminskoye field (8.4×10^12 cu ft (240 km3))
  • Ludlovskoye field (8×10^12 cu ft (230 km3))
  • Geophisicheskoye field (7.9×10^12 cu ft (220 km3))
  • Verhneviluchanskoye field (7.9×10^12 cu ft (220 km3))
  • Minkhovskoye field (7.8×10^12 cu ft (220 km3))
  • Novo Portovskoye field (7.5×10^12 cu ft (210 km3))
  • Yen-Yahinskoye field (7.5×10^12 cu ft (210 km3))
  • West-Siyakhinskoye field (7.2×10^12 cu ft (200 km3))
  • North-Komsomolskoye field (7.1×10^12 cu ft (200 km3))
  • Sredne-Tyugskoye field (6.2×10^12 cu ft (180 km3))
  • Soletsko-Khanaveyskoye field (5.8×10^12 cu ft (160 km3))
  • Layavozhskoye field (5.3×10^12 cu ft (150 km3))
  • Gydanskoye field (4.4×10^12 cu ft (120 km3))
  • Tas-Yuryakhskoye field (4.2×10^12 cu ft (120 km3))
  • Hancheiskoye field (4.2×10^12 cu ft (120 km3))
  • Verhnetiuteyskoye field (4.2×10^12 cu ft (120 km3))
  • Vyngayahinskoye field (4.0×10^12 cu ft (110 km3))
  • Myldzhinskoye field (3.8×10^12 cu ft (110 km3))
  • Messoyakha Gas Field (3.8×10^12 cu ft (110 km3))
Saudi Arabia
Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone
  • Dorra (35×10^12 cu ft (990 km3))
Saudi-Kuwaiti neutral zone
  • Safaniya-Khafji Field (12.3×10^12 cu ft (350 km3))
South Korea
Syria
  • Levant Basin province (estimated total of this entire region 122×10^12 cu ft (3,500 km3)) within the territorial waters of Syria, the Palestinian Gaza Strip, Israel, Lebanon, and Cyprus[5]
  • The Leviathan gas field located off the coast of Israel and Palestine (Gaza), and possibly Lebanon[18]
Taiwan
  • Nushan
Tajikistan
  • Komsomolsk gas field (11.2×10^12 cu ft (320 km3))
Turkey
  • Tuna-1[19] (11.2×10^12 cu ft (320 km3))
Turkmenistan


Ukraine
  • Efremovske field (4×10^12 cu ft (110 km3))
  • Shebeli field (25×10^12 cu ft (710 km3))
  • West-Khrestish field (13×10^12 cu ft (370 km3))
United Arab Emirates
  • Rub Al Khali Province (426×10^12 cu ft (12,100 km3)) part of Rub Al Khali province is in the territory of the United Arab Emirates[21][22]
United States
Uzbekistan
  • Shurtan (24×10^12 cu ft (680 km3))
  • Gazli (18×10^12 cu ft (510 km3))
  • Zevardi (8.3×10^12 cu ft (240 km3))
  • Alan gas field (68×10^12 cu ft (1,900 km3))
  • Dengizkul-Khauzak (KKSK project) (6.3×10^12 cu ft (180 km3))
  • Kandym (KKSK project) (5.8×10^12 cu ft (160 km3))
  • Kokdamulak (5.4×10^12 cu ft (150 km3))
  • Urtabulak (3.9×10^12 cu ft (110 km3))
  • Urga/Kuanysh/Akchalak (44×10^12 cu ft (1,200 km3))
Venezuela
Vietnam
  • Baovang (11×10^12 cu ft (310 km3))

By size

Sorted by size (*109 m³):

  1. Asalouyeh, South Pars Gas Field (10000 - 15000)
  2. Urengoy gas field (10200)
  3. Marcellus shale (4452-13674)
  4. Haynesville Shale (7079)
  5. Iolotan gas field (7000)
  6. Yamburg gas field (5242)
  7. Bovanenkovskoe field (4400)
  8. Leningradskoye field (4000)
  9. Rusanovskoye field (4000)
  10. Zapolyarnoye gas field (3500)
  11. Shtokman field (3200)
  12. Point Tomson (3000)
  13. Manas (3000)
  14. Groningen (2850)
  15. Arctic field (2762)
  16. Astrakhanskoye field (2711)
  17. Anadarko Basin (2650)
  18. Hassi R'mel (2549)
  19. West Kamchatka shelf (2300)
  20. Medvezhye field (2200)
  21. Yurubchen (2100)
  22. Hugoton Natural Gas Area (2039)
  23. Kharasoveiskoye field (1900)
  24. Orenburgskoe field (1900)
  25. Kovykta field (1900)
  26. Karachaganak field, Kazakhstan (1800)
  27. Dauletabad gas field (1602)
  28. Jupiter gas field (1000-1600)
  29. Kyrtael field (1600)
  30. North Pars (1565)
  31. Kish Gas Field (1560)
  32. Ghawar Field (1500)
  33. Kyzyloi Field (1420)
  34. Pazanun (1415)
  35. Elsuort (more than 1400)
  36. Golshan Gas Field (1325)
  37. Troll (1325)
  38. Sakhalin-III (1300)
  39. Chayandinskoye field (1240)
  40. Angaro-Lenskoye field (1220)
  41. Shah Deniz gas field (1200)
  42. Central-Astrakhan field (1200)
  43. Shatlyk gas field (1200)
  44. Urtga/Kuanysh/Akchalak (1200)
  45. Shebeli field (1200)
  46. Chicontepec Field (1100)
  47. Greater Gorgon (1100)
  48. Dorra (1000)
  49. Yuzhno-Russkoye field (1000)
  50. South-Tambey field (1000)
  51. Dazhou (600-3500)
  52. Krusenstern field (960)
  53. North-Tambey field (929)
  54. North West Shelf Venture (875)
  55. Kharampurskoye field (825)
  56. Mahakam gas field (822)
  57. Pestsovoe field (800)
  58. Utrenneye field (747)
  59. Malyginskoye field (745)
  60. Yurkharovskoye field (740)
  61. Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (736)
  62. Harvutinskoye field (700)
  63. Shurtan (634)
  64. North-Urengoy field (600)
  65. Jansz (570)
  66. Tabnak (562)
  67. Sulige (534)
  68. Kangan (533)
  69. Avali (530)
  70. Samburg field (500)
  71. Sakhalin-II (500)
  72. Tangguh gas field (500)
  73. Kamennomysskoye field (500)
  74. Ledovoe field (500)
  75. Sakhalin-I (485)
  76. Gazli (477)
  77. Lemen Bank (460)
  78. Tasiyskoye field (440)
  79. Yamsoveiskoye gas field (436)
  80. Farsi (425)
  81. Ormen Lange (400)
  82. Aneryahinskoye field (400)
  83. Gubkinskoye field (400)
  84. Vuktyl (390)
  85. Minami Kanto gas field (375)
  86. Cisco Springs Oil Field (370)
  87. Katie field (362)
  88. Kettlemen Hills field (362)
  89. Kamrik (360)
  90. Kandkhot field (347)
  91. Nar (345)
  92. West-Khrestish field (335)
  93. Indefatigable field (333)
  94. Kopanoar (331)
  95. King Kristian (330)
  96. Safaniya-Khafji Field (327)
  97. Beregovoe field (324)
  98. Yubileynoye field (323)
  99. Hvalynskoye field (322)
  100. Tarkosalinskoye (322)
  101. Kisimbay field (310)
  102. North-Kamennomysskoye field (310)
  103. Aghar (307)
  104. Jonah Field (300)
  105. Ety-Purovskoye Field (300)
  106. Khangiran (300)
  107. Khateyba (300)
  108. Ahwaz Field (300)
  109. Baovang (300)
  110. Ferdowsi Gas Field (297)
  111. Komsomolsk gas field (296)
  112. Vyngapurovskoye field (290)
  113. Gomez gas field (283)
  114. Nahodkinskoe field (275)
  115. Pelyadkinskoe field (255)
  116. Lacq (250)
  117. Lyantorskoye field (250)
  118. West-Astrakhan field (250)
  119. Severo-Stavropolskoye field (229)
  120. Asgard field (226)
  121. Zawtica (225)
  122. Nurminskoye field (223)
  123. Zevardi (220)
  124. Ludlovskoye field (220)
  125. Geophisicheskoye field (210)
  126. Verhneviluchanskoye field (209)
  127. Minkhovskoye field (208)
  128. Novo Portovskoye field (200)
  129. Yen-Yahinskoye field (200)
  130. Frigg gas field (200)
  131. Hekla gas field (198)
  132. Shiyugou Dunxi (198)
  133. West-Siyakhinskoye field (190)
  134. North-Komsomolskoye field (186)
  135. Ekofisk oil field (185)
  136. Scott reef (180)
  137. Alan gas field (179)
  138. Sleipner gas field (174)
  139. Dengizkul-Khauzak (167)
  140. Amistad gas field (163)
  141. Sredne-Tyugskoye field (165)
  142. Peciko field (162)
  143. Deltana Platform (160)
  144. Soletsko-Khanaveyskoye field (155)
  145. Kandym (153)
  146. Kenai (152)
  147. Achak gas field (150)
  148. Albacora-Leste oil field (150)
  149. Kokdamulak (144)
  150. Drake Point (142)
  151. Tamar 1 (142)
  152. Mokane Lavern (140)
  153. Snøhvit (140)
  154. Layavozhskoye field (140)
  155. Arun gas field (125)
  156. Gydanskoye field (116)
  157. Tas-Yuryakhskoye field (112)
  158. Hancheiskoye (111)
  159. Efremovske field (110)
  160. Vyngayahinskoye field (107)
  161. Ras El Barr (106)
  162. Urtabulak (103)
  163. Oseberg oil field (102)
  164. Myldzhinskoye field (100)
  165. Marlin (100)
  166. Messoyakha Gas Field (100)
  167. Kudu gas field (34 – 240)
  168. Barnett Shale (60 - 900)
  169. Sui Gas Field (50-60)

See also

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