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Map of countries with proven oil reserves - according to US EIA (start of 2017) ... Russia Saudi Arabia United States Venezuela BP [1] 168.1 157.8 145.0 107.8
Western Siberian plain on a satellite map of North Asia.. The West Siberian petroleum basin (also known as the West Siberian hydrocarbon province or Western Siberian oil basin) is the largest hydrocarbon (petroleum and natural gas) basin in the world covering an area of about 2.2 million km 2, and is also the largest oil and gas producing region in Russia.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's petroleum output fell sharply, and has rebounded only in the last several years. The Soviet Union reached a peak of 12.58 million barrels per day (2.000 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 /d) in total liquids in 1988, and production had fallen to around 6 million barrels per day (950 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d) by the mid-1990s.
There are vast oilfields in the West Siberian petroleum basin, and Russia's largest oil refinery is the Omsk Refinery. The Kuznetsk Basin around Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk is a center of coal mining, and the production of iron, steel, machinery, and chemicals. Logging is a significant industry throughout the region.
From the Caspian Sea there is one oil pipeline, which continues to the petrol camps of Emba at Orsk and ends in Omsk, in western Siberia. Sakhalin Island has the most important oil reserves in the Russian Far East. In 1936, the Ohka oil wells extracted about 470,000 tonnes; one-third were obtained for Japanese concessionaires.
Yamal holds Russia's biggest natural gas reserves. [9] The 572 km Obskaya–Bovanenkovo railway, completed in 2011, is the northernmost railway in the world. [10] Russian gas monopolist Gazprom had planned to develop the Yurkharovskoye gas field by 2011–2012. The peninsula's gas reserves are estimated to be 55 trillion cubic meters (tcm). [8]
West Siberian petroleum basin oil and gas fields. Samotlor Field is the largest oil field of Russia and the sixth largest in the world, [1] owned and operated by Rosneft. The field is located at Lake Samotlor in Nizhnevartovsk district, Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast. It covers 1,752 square kilometres (676 sq mi). [2]
The largest rivers of the region are the Irtysh and the Ob. [1] All major rivers of Western Siberia belong to the Kara Sea basin. The West Siberian petroleum basin is the largest hydrocarbon (petroleum and natural gas) basin in the world covering an area of about 2.2 million km 2, and is also the largest oil and gas producing region in Russia. [2]