Ambalat

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Ambalat
Ambalat
Coordinates: 3°47′50″N 118°51′15″E / 3.79722°N 118.85417°E / 3.79722; 118.85417

Ambalat is a sea block in the Celebes sea located off the east coast of Borneo. It lies to the east of the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan and to the south-east of the Malaysian state of Sabah, 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 62,000,000 barrels (9,900,000 m³) of oil and 348 million cubic meters of natural gas. Other estimates place it substantially higher: 764,000,000 barrels (121,500,000 m³) of oil and 3.96 × 10¹⁰ cubic meters (1.4 trillion cubic feet) of gas, in only one of nine points in Ambalat.^[1]