In 2016, Bob Fryklund and Pete Stark defined "super basin" combining commerciality, geoscience architecture, infrastructure, and above-ground issues.
[1] According to the original paper published in IHS Markit, a basin must count with at least five barrels of oil equivalent (BBOe) produced and at the same volume of recoverable remaining reserves;[2] two or more petroleum systems or source rocks; stacked reservoirs; existing infrastructure and oil field services; and good access to markets.
[3] A characteristic is richness measured as the total volume of hydrocarbons per square kilometer.
Offshore basins in the North Sea, Brazil, and the Gulf of Mexico are benefiting from geophysical enhancements.
[4] The top 30 super basin contain about 57% of the biggest oil fields in the world.