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MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 30 May 2026) The discovery of oil deposits in Ligawasan is not recent. A post on a Facebook page saying otherwise is FALSE. MindaNews fact-checked this claim as the post makes it appear that this is a new discovery.  On 12 April 2026, a Facebook user Mi Filipinas shared a post to the public group Philippine History & Current Events about gas and oil reserves in the Philippines “that, if extracted, are more than enough to lift the country out of poverty. Some natural gas deposits have already been confirmed through exploration, but most oil reserves remain unproven and largely unexplored due to limited extraction activities.” The post says: “ Recent discoveries , especially in Mindanao—specifically within the Cotabato Basin and Liguasan (sic) Marsh—offer the strongest evidence of oil deposits near the Liguasan (sic) Marsh area within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).” [emphasis added; the name of the mar...