State ownership.
Article 3
ART. 3. State ownership.—All natural deposits or occurrences of petroleum or natural gas in public and/or e lands in the Philippines, whether found in, on or the surface of dry lands, creeks, rivers, lakes, or other submerged lands within the territorial waters or on the continental shelf, or its analogue in an archipelago seaward from the shores of the Philippines which within the territories of other countries, belong to the State, inalienably and imprescriptibly.