Unconventional resources comprise shale gas, shale oil, coal-bed methane, tight gas/oil sands and heavy oil. There is currently no commercial exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbon resources in Myanmar and this side of the industry is very much in its infancy; see Table 11.1 for a summary. View this table: Table 11.1. Unconventional resource potential (from Lynn Myint 2014) Gas shales are thermally mature, organic-rich, source rocks in which gas is held in natural fractures within some pore spaces and also adsorbed onto the organic material. Areas of focus comprise the Tertiary in the Hukaung, Chindwin, Salin, Pyay, Ayeyarwady, Shwebo-Monywa, Myitkyina-Katha, Bago Yoma and Sittaung basins or areas and the Silurian–Devonian in the Lashio and Kalaw areas (Northern Shan State). The best studied of these is the western flank of the Sailin Basin where the source parameters shown in Table 11.2 are noted (after Lynn …