The Potential of Sino–Russian Energy Cooperation in the Arctic Region and Its Impact on China’s Energy Security

Table 2

Undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in the Russian Arctic (including shared resources with Norway).

	Crude oil (billion barrels)	Natural gas (ten thousand	Crude oil (billion barrels)	Natural gas (ten thousand
Siberian basin	3.66	651.5	20.33	132.57
Yenisei–Khatanga basin	5.58	99.96	2.68	24.92
Laptev Sea continental shelf	3.12	32.56	0.87	9.41
North Kara basin	1.81	14.97	0.39	4.69
Timan bochaola basin	1.67	9.06	0.2	3.38
Lena–Anabar basin	1.91	2.11	0.06	2.32
Scintillation basin	0.10	5.74	0.10	1.16
Northwest raodev shelf	0.17	4.49	0.12	1.04
Lena–Vilyui basin	0.38	1.34	0.04	0.64
Riliangka basin	0.05	1.51	0.04	0.34
Eastern Siberian basin	0.02	0.62	0.01	0.13
East Barents basin	7.41	317.56	1.42	61.7
Eurasian basin	1.34	19.48	0.52	5.11
Total	27.22	1160.9	26.78	247.47

Source: USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/. Note: 6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas is equivalent to 1 billion barrels of crude oil.