Abstract:

(The Arctic circle, abundant in natural resources, especial in oil and gas resources, is estimated to hold more than 400Bboe (54.5 billion tons), about oneforth of the world’s undiscovered quantities, where is a strategic place for future oil and gas exploration and development. This paper, based on data from BP, IHS and USGS, analyzes statistically the discovered and undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Arctic circle. The former is chiefly concentrated in the US, Russia, Canada and Norway while the latter is mainly on 8 basins. Most gas resources are hosted in Kara in east Siberian basin and in Barents sea, the oil is in the Alaska north slope basin and its adjacent offshore are. This paper studies the exploration potentials in these three basins with most-abundant oil-gas resources and discusses the tactics for Chinese oil-gas companies to enter the Arctic circle.

Key words:  the Arctic circle, discovered oil-gas, undiscovered oil-gas, exploration potential

摘要：

北极地区自然资源丰富，尤其常规石油和天然气资源极为丰富，待发现的油气资源超过4 000亿桶（545亿t）油当量，占世界待发现资源量的四分之一之上，是未来油气勘探开发重要的战略接替区。本文应用BP、IHS和USGS等多家石油和能源公司以及评估机构的研究数据，对北极圈内已发现油气和待发现资源潜力及其分布分别作了统计分析，研究认为已发现油气主要分布在美国、俄罗斯、加拿大和挪威4个国家，待发现油气资源主要集中分布在8个主要的含油气盆地里，天然气主要分布在西伯利亚的喀拉海和东巴伦支海盆地，石油主要分布在阿拉斯加北坡盆地以及临近海域。本文针对这3个油气资源最为丰富的盆地作勘探潜力分析，并初步探讨中国油气公司进入北极的策略。

关键词: 北极地区, 已发现油气, 待发现油气资源, 勘探潜力