List of oil fields explained

This list of oil fields includes some major oil fields of the past and present.The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world.[1] However, 94 % of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1500 giant and major fields.[2] Most of the world's largest oilfields are located in the Middle East, but there are also supergiant (>10 billion bbls) oilfields in Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, and Russia.

Amounts listed below, in billions of barrels, are the estimated ultimate recoverable petroleum resources (proved reserves plus cumulative production), given historical production and current extraction technology. Oil shale reserves (perhaps 3Toilbbl) and coal reserves, both of which can be converted to liquid petroleum, are not included in this chart. Other non-conventional liquid fuel sources are similarly excluded from this list.

Oil fields greater than 1Goilbbl

Field Location Discovered Started production Peaked data-sort-type="number"Recoverable oil, past and future (billion barrels) !data-sort-type="number"Production (million barrels/day) !data-sort-type="number"Rate of decline
1948[3] 1951 2005,[4] disputed[5] 88-104[6] 3.8[7] 8 % per year[8]
1937 1948 2005[9] 66-72 1.7[10] 14 % per year
Ahvaz FieldIran19581970s[11] 25 recoverable[12] 0.75[13]
1963[14] 1982[15] [16] (1967) Production still increasing 21 recoverable) 0.75 Extension planned to 1 MMb/d[17]
Gachsaran FieldIran19271930197466[18] 0.48
Cantarell FieldMexico197619812004[19] 18–35 billion recoverable0.16[20] peaked in 2004 at 2.14Moilbbl/d
Ku-Maloob-ZaapMexico1979198120150.72Production peaked at 853000 bpd in 2018
Bolivar Coastal FieldVenezuela19171922|30–32|2.6–3||-|Aghajari Field|Iran| 1938 | 1940||28[21] |0.44

||-|Tupi Field|Brazil, Santos Basin |2007|||5–8|0.93||-|Safaniya Oil Field|Kuwait/Saudi Arabia|1951|||30|1.2||-|Esfandiar Field|Iran|1965|||30|||-|Rumaila Field|Iraq|1953|||17[22] |1.5||-|Tengiz Field|Kazakhstan|1979|1993|2010|26–40|0.65[23] |expanding from 285k to 1.3 m bpd[24] |-|Kirkuk Field|Iraq|1927|1934||8.5|0.48||-|Shaybah Field|Saudi Arabia|1998|1998||15|||-|Majnoon Field|Iraq|1975|||11–20|0.5||-|Samotlor Field|Russia, West Siberia |1965|1969|1980[25] |14–16|0.33 |(depletion: 73 %)[26] 5 % decline per year (2008–2014)[27] |-|Shaikan Sheikh Adi Field|Iraq Kurdistan |2009|2013|production still increasing|4–6|0.04|production still increasing|-|Romashkino Field|Russia, Volga-Ural|1948|1949|in decline|16–17|0.30 (2006)|depletion: 85 %|-|Prudhoe Bay| United States, Alaska|1967–68|1977|1988[28] |13 recoverable|0.32|11 % per year|-|Sarir Field|Libya|1961|1961||6.5 billion recoverable|||-|Priobskoye field|Russia, West Siberia|1982|2000||13|0.50 (2019)|14 % depleted, production rapidly expanding[29] |-|Lyantorskoye field|Russia, West Siberia|1966|1979||13|0.168 (2004)|depletion: 81 %|-|Abqaiq Field|Saudi Arabia|1940|1940||12|0.43[30] ||-|Chicontepec Field|Mexico|1926|||6.5 (19 certified)[31] |||-|Berri Field|Saudi Arabia|1964|||12|||-|West Qurna Field|Iraq|1973|||15–21|0.18–0.25 (pot.)* civil war||-|Manifa Field|Saudi Arabia|1957|||11|||-|Fyodorovskoye Field|Russia, West Siberia|1971|1974||11|1.9 (197x)||-|East Baghdad Field|Iraq|1976|||8|0–0.05 (pot.)* civil war||-|Foroozan-Marjan (Iran) Field|Saudi Arabia/Iran|1966|||10|||-|Marlim Field|Brazil, Campos Basin|1985||in decline|10–14||8 % per year[32] |-|Awali|Bahrain|1932|||1|||-|Azadegan Field|Iran|1999|||5.2|||-|Marun Field|Iran|1963|||16|0.52||-|Mesopotamian Foredeep Basin|Kuwait||||66–72|||-|Minagish|Kuwait|1959|||2|||-|Raudhatain|Kuwait||||11|||-|Sabriya|Kuwait|1955[33] |2018||3.8–4|||-|Yibal|Oman||1968||1|||-|Mukhaizna Oil Field|Oman||||1|||-|Dukhan Field|Qatar||1988

||2.2|||-|Halfaya Field|Iraq||2010||4.1|||-|Az Zubayr Field|Iraq|1949|||6|||-|Nahr Umr Field|Iraq|1948|||6|||-|Abu-Sa'fah field|Saudi Arabia|1963|||6.1|||-|Hassi Messaoud|Algeria|1956|||9|||-|Bouri Field|Libya|1976|1988||4.5|0.060||-|Kizomba Complex|Angola||||2|||-|Dalia (oil field)|Angola|1997|||1|||-|Belayim|Angola||||>1|||-|Zafiro|Angola|||| 1|||-|Zelten oil field|Libya|1956|1961||2.5|||-|Agbami Field|Nigeria|1998|2008||0.8–1.2|||-||Bonga Field|Nigeria|1996|2005||1.4|||-|Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli|Azerbaijan|1985|1997||5.4|0.54||-|Bahar oilfields|Azerbaijan, Bibiheybət|1846||||||-|Karachaganak Field|Kazakhstan|1972|||2.5|||-|Kashagan Field|Kazakhstan|2000|||30[34] |0.40||-|Kurmangazy Field|Kazakhstan||||6–7|||-|Darkhan Field|Kazakhstan||||9.5|||-|Zhanazhol Field|Kazakhstan|1960|1987||3|||-|Uzen Field|Kazakhstan||||7|||-|Kalamkas Field|Kazakhstan||||3.2|||-|Zhetybay Field|Kazakhstan||||2.1|||-|Nursultan Field|Kazakhstan||||4.5|||-|Jubilee oil field|Ghana|2007|2010||3|0.15||-|Ekofisk oil field|Norway|1969|1971|2006|3.3|0.13||-|Troll Vest|Norway|1979|1990|2003|1.4|||-|Statfjord|Norway|1974|1979|1987|5[35] |||-|Gullfaks|Norway|1978|1986|1994|2.1|||-|Oseberg|Norway|1979|1988||2.2|0.089||-|Snorre|Norway|1979|1992|2003|1.5|||-|Johan Sverdrup oil field|Norway|2010|2019|2023|2.8|0.76|Plateau production target of 755,000 bpd reached in May 2023|-|Mamontovskoye Field|Russia||||8|||-|Russkoye Field|Russia||||2.5|||-|Kamennoe Field|Russia||||1.9|||-|Vankor Field|Russia|1983|2009||3.8[36] |||-|Vatyeganskoye Field|Russia||||1.4|||-|Tevlinsko-Russkinskoye Field|Russia||||1.3|||-|Sutorminskoye Field|Russia||||1.3|||-|Urengoy group|Russia||||1|||-|Ust-Balykskoe Field|Russia||||>1|||-|Tuymazinskoe Field|Russia||||3|||-|Arlanskoye Field|Russia||||>2|||-|South-Hilchuy Field|Russia||||3.1|||-|North-Dolginskoye Field|Russia||||2.2|||-|Nizhne-Chutinskoe Field|Russia||||1.7|||-|South-Dolginskoye Field|Russia||||1.6|||-|Prirazlomnoye Field|Russia|1989|2011||1.4|||-|West-Matveevskoye Field|Russia||||1.1|||-|Sakhalin Islands|Russia||||14|||-|Odoptu|Russia||||1|||-|Arukutun-Dagi|Russia||||1|||-|Piltun-Astokhskoye Field|Russia|1986|1999||1|||-|Ayash Field East-Odoptu Field|Russia||||4.5|||-|Verhne-Chonskoye Field|Russia||||1.3|||-|Talakan Field|Russia||||1.3|||-|North-Caucasus Basin|Russia||||1.7|||-|Clair oilfield|United Kingdom|1977|||1.75 recoverable|||-|Forties oilfield|United Kingdom|1970|1975|1979|5|0.02||-|Jupiter field|Brazil|2008|||7|||-|Cupiagua/Cusiana|Colombia|||| 1|||-|Boscán Field, Venezuela|Venezuela|1946|1947||1.6|||-|Mumbai High|India, Arabian Sea|1965|1974|||0.17||-|Pembina|Canada|1953|1953||1.81 (recoverable)[37] |||-|Swan Hills|Canada|||||||-|Rainbow Lake|Canada|||||||-|Hibernia|Canada|1979|1997||3|||-|Terra Nova Field|Canada|1984|2002||1.0|||-|Kelly-Snyder / SACROC|United States, Texas||||1.5|||-|Bakken Oil Field|United States, North Dakota|1951|||7.3[38] |||-|Yates Oil Field|United States, Texas|1926|1926|1929|3.0 (2.0 billion recovered; 1.0 reserve remaining)[39] [40] |||-|Kuparuk oil field|United States, Alaska|1969|||6|||-|Alpine, Alaska|United States, Alaska|1994|2000|2005|0.4–1|0.05||-|East Texas Oil Field|United States, Texas|1930|||6|||-|Spraberry Trend|United States, Texas|1943|||10[41] |||-|Wilmington Oil Field|United States, California|1932|||3|||-|South Belridge Oil Field|United States, California|1911|||2[42] |||-|Coalinga Oil Field|United States, California|1887|||1|||-|Elk Hills|United States, California|1911|||1.5|||-|Kern River|United States, California|1899|||2.5|||-|Midway-Sunset Field|United States, California|1894|||3.4|||-|Thunder Horse Oil Field|United States, Gulf of Mexico|1999|||1|0.25||-|Kingfish|Australia||||1.2|||-|Halibut|Australia|1967|||1|||-|Daqing Field|China|1959|1960|2008|16|0.60| depletion: 90 %, production peaked at 40 m t/y in 2008 |-|Jidong Field|China||||2.2|||-|Tahe Field|China||||8|||-|Nanpu Oil Field|China||||7.35|||-|SL10-SL13 Genel/CPC Field|Somaliland|2014|||4.2 |||-|Wushi Oil Field|China|2015||||||-|Tarim Oil Fields|China||1989|||||-|Zafiro Field|Equatorial Guinea|1995||2004|1[43] |||-|Unnamed field|Antarctica|2024|||511[44] ||}

See also

References

Notes and References

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