Possibilities of W. Batangas basin in Philippines South China Sea

Journal Article · Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 EDT 1992 · Oil and Gas Journal; (United States)

OSTI ID:5056343

Austria, B S; Reyes, Jr, R A ^[1]

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1. Trans-Asia Oil and Mineral Development Corp., Manila (PH)

The West Batangas basin is one of the few remaining untested basins on the Philippine side of the South China Sea. It lies about 100 km southwest of Manila, off and straddling the west coast of Batangas province, Luzon island. About 60% of the basin offshore lies in water 200 m deep or less. This promising frontier basin is probably part of the North Palawan block, which underlies the petroleum production area off Palawan about 350 km to the southwest. This paper reports that discoveries in this petroleum province include 1 West Linapacan, which is estimated to contain more than 100 million bbl of oil recoverable, 1 Camago, a major gas/condensate find with reserves of more than 1 tcf, the 1 Calauit oil discovery, and the 1 Octon condensate deposit. The volume of recoverable hydrocarbons in the West Linapacan and Camago reservoirs demonstrates that sizable reserves can be discovered in the relatively underexplored North Palawan block, whose geologic evolution is closely linked with the rifting and development of the South China Sea. Similar features and plays can be observed in the frontier area of West Batangas, which has a basin with as much as 9,000 m of Mesozoic and Cenozoic section and similar sandstone and carbonate reservoirs as the Northwest Palawan terrane.

• OSTI ID: 5056343
• Journal Information: Oil and Gas Journal; (United States), Vol. 90:23; ISSN 0030-1388
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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