oa USGS Petroleum Assessment of the World - How Do the Rift Basins of the Mediterranean Rank?

The USGS recently completed an assessment of the conventionally recoverable undiscovered oil and gas resources of the world . Of the 246 assessment units in the world, 88 were identified a s being, at least in part, in extensional tectonic or rilt areas. An additional; 21 assessment units veere identified as being in solely extensional areas.