Editing Oil platform (section)

== Main offshore basins ==
[[File:Gulf Offshore Platform.jpg|thumb|upright|Offshore platform, [[Gulf of Mexico]]]]
Notable offshore basins include:
* the [[North Sea]]
* the [[Offshore oil and gas in the US Gulf of Mexico|Gulf of Mexico]] (offshore [[Texas]], [[Louisiana]], [[Mississippi]], [[Alabama]] and [[Florida]])
* [[Offshore oil and gas in California|California]] (in the [[Los Angeles Basin]] and [[Santa Barbara Channel]], part of the Ventura Basin)
* the Caspian Sea (notably some major fields offshore [[Azerbaijan]])
* the [[Campos Basin|Campos]] and [[Santos Basin]]s off the coasts of [[Brazil]]
* [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] and [[Nova Scotia]] ([[Atlantic Canada]])
* several fields off [[West Africa]], south of [[Nigeria]], and central Africa, west of [[Angola]]
* offshore fields in [[South East Asia]] and [[Sakhalin]], Russia
* major offshore oil fields are located in the [[Persian Gulf]] such as Safaniya, Manifa and Marjan which belong to Saudi Arabia and are developed by Saudi Aramco<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-12308981.html|title=Contracts let for Marjan oil field development. (Saudi Arabian Oil Co. bids out offshore development contracts) (Saudi Arabia)|work=Middle East Economic Digest|date=March 27, 1992|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105163103/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-12308981.html|archive-date=2012-11-05|url-status=dead|access-date=2011-02-26|via=Highbeam Research}}</ref>
* fields in [[India]] (Mumbai High, K G Basin-East Coast Of India, Tapti Field, [[Gujarat]], India)
* the [[List of oil and gas fields of the Baltic Sea|Baltic Sea]] oil and gas fields 
* the [[Taranaki Basin]] in [[New Zealand]]
* the [[East-Prinovozemelsky field|Kara Sea]] north of Siberia<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.platts.com/latest-news/oil/moscow/russian-rosneft-announces-major-oil-gas-discovery-21300064|title=Russian Rosneft announces major oil, gas discovery in Arctic Kara Sea|access-date=2017-08-18|publisher=Platts|archive-date=2018-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107192913/https://www.platts.com/latest-news/oil/moscow/russian-rosneft-announces-major-oil-gas-discovery-21300064|url-status=live}}</ref>
* the [[Arctic Ocean]] off the coasts of [[Alaska]] and Canada's [[Northwest Territories]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boem.gov/uploadedFiles/BOEM/Oil_and_Gas_Energy_Program/Resource_Evaluation/Resource_Assessment/2006AlaskaUndiscoveredOilandGasResources.pdf|title=Year 2006 National Assessment – Alaska Outer Continental Shelf|publisher=Dept Interior BEOM|access-date=2017-08-18|archive-date=2017-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902171408/https://www.boem.gov/uploadedFiles/BOEM/Oil_and_Gas_Energy_Program/Resource_Evaluation/Resource_Assessment/2006AlaskaUndiscoveredOilandGasResources.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* the offshore fields in the [[Adriatic Sea]]