South China Sea Energy Profile: Critical World Trade Route – Analysis

The South China Sea is a critical world trade route. In 2023, 10 billion barrels of petroleum and petroleum product and 6.7 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) passed through the South China Sea.^1 The sea stretches from Singapore and the Strait of Malacca in the southwest to the Strait of Taiwan in the...