The oil and gas habitats of the South Atlantic / Области развития нефти и газа в Южной Атлантике

For the purposes of this volume, the South Atlantic comprises the Atlantic Ocean south of a direct line from Tangier (Morocco) to the Guyana-Venezuela border and north of a direct line from Cape Town (South Africa) and Cape Horn (Argentina). At the end of 1997 this region contained 4.3% of the world's total discovered oil reserves and 2.4% of the world's total discovered gas reserves (Petroconsultants 1998).
On the basis of the 1997 figure, six countries - Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville) and Angola - host 96.3% of the region's oil reserves and 92.1% of the region's gas reserves. Figure 1 illustrates the geographical distribution of the reserve splits, Table 1 gives the details.<...>