Oil field disputes

oil field in Saudi Arabia

oil field

Ambalat is a sea block in the Celebes Sea located off the east coast of Borneo. It lies to the south-east of the Malaysian state of Sabah and to the east of the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan, and it is the subject of a territorial dispute between the two nations. Malaysia refers to part of the Ambalat block as Block ND6 (formerly Block Y) and part of East Ambalat Block as Block ND7 (formerly Block Z). The deep sea blocks contain an estimated of oil and 348 million cubic meters of natural gas. Other estimates place it substantially higher: of oil and 3.96 × 1010 cubic meters (1.4 tril

area of the Timor Sea between Australia and Timor Island