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| x Wilmington Oil Field |
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1932 | 2,583 | Dec 1, 2001 |
The Wilmington Oil Field is a large petroleum field in Los Angeles County in southern California in the United States in terms of cumulative oil produced. Discovered in 1932, it is the third largest oil field in the United States. The field runs...
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| x Bonga Field |
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The Bonga Field is an oilfield in Nigeria. It was located in License block OPL 212 off the Nigerian Coast, which has now been renamed as OML 118 in February 2000. The field covers approximately 60 km in an average water depth of 1,000 metres (3,300...
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Ghawar (Arabic:الغوار) is an oil field in Saudi Arabia. It is located about 100 km (62 mi) WSW from the city of Dhahran in Al-Ahsa county of the Eastern Province. Measuring 280 km × 30 km (170 mi × 19 mi), it is by far the largest conventional oil...
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| x Cantarell Field | 1976 | 11,429,000 | Nov 2006 |
Cantarell Field or Cantarell Complex is the largest oil field in Mexico and one of the largest in the world. It was discovered in 1976 by a fisherman, Rudesindo Cantarell. It was placed on nitrogen injection in 2000, and production peaked at 2.1...
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| x Brent oilfield |
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The Brent field operated by Shell UK Limited was once one of the most productive parts of the UK's offshore assets but is now nearing the end of its useful life..
Shell initially named all of their UK oil fields after waterbirds in alphabetical...
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| x Rumaila Field |
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The Rumaila Field is an oil field located in Kuwait and southern Iraq. The dispute between Iraq and Kuwait over allegedly slant-drilling in the field was one of reasons for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. This giant oil field was discovered by...
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| x North Sea oil |
North Sea oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons, comprising liquid oil and natural gas, produced from oil reservoirs beneath the North Sea. In the oil industry, the term "North Sea" often includes areas such as the Norwegian Sea and the UK "Atlantic...
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| x Spindletop |
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Spindletop is a salt dome oil field located in south Beaumont, Texas in the United States. The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt evaporite layer of Jurassic age. On January 10, 1901, a well at Spindletop struck oil ("came in"). Some...
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| x Burgan Field |
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The onshore Burgan Field in the desert of southeastern Kuwait is one of the world's largest and richest oil fields.
After its discovery in February, 1938, the USA & UK owned Gulf Oil Corporation began commercial oil production at Burgan in 1946....
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| x Tengiz Field |
Tengiz field (Tengiz is Kazakh for "sea"), in western Kazakhstan, is located in the low-lying wetlands along the northeast shores of the Caspian Sea. Discovered in 1979, Tengiz oil field is one of the largest discoveries in recent history. The city...
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| x Timan-Pechora |
The Timan-Pechora Basin is an oil field basin in northern Russia. It is south of the Pechora Sea. A planned project to mine its oil and gas was conceived in the mid-nineties and approved by United States and Russian Governments. As of September 29,...
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| x Dukhan Field |
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Dukhan Field is a large petroleum-producing field extending over an area of approximately 80km in Qatar. The first well was drilled in 1939/1940 and the first export of petroleum from Dukhan went out in 1949. The field produces up to 335,000 barrels...
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| x West Qurna Field |
West Qurna (Arabic: غرب قرنة) is one of Iraq's largest oil fields, located north of Rumaila field, west of Basra. West Qurna is believed to hold 11 to 15 billion barrel (1.8 to 2.4 km³) of recoverable reserve and have production potential of 0.8 to...
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| x Buchan oil field |
The Buchan Oil field is located in the Central North Sea approximately 120 miles (190 km) north east of Aberdeen, Scotland, in an area known as the South Halibut Basin (Wood Mackenzie 2002). It was first located in August 1972, two years after the...
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| x Baba Gurgur |
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Baba Gurgur (بابا كركر) is a large oil field near the city of Kirkuk which was the first to be discovered in Northern Iraq in 1927.
It was considered the largest oil field in the world until the discovery of the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia in the...
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| x Safaniya Field |
Safaniya Field is an oil field in Saudi Arabia. It was discovered in 1951. It is considered the largest offshore oil field in the world. Its reserve amount to around 37 billion barrels of oil and 5,360 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
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| x Al Shaheen oil field |
The Al Shaheen oil field lies to the north east of Qatar near the border with Iran in the Persian Gulf. The Knock Nevis is moored there as an FSO. This was the largest oil tanker in its day.
The oil field lies over the North Gas Field, the largest...
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| x Trenton Gas Field |
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The Trenton Gas Field is located in east central Indiana and the most western portion of west central Ohio. The field was discovered in 1876, but the size and magnitude of the field was not known until the 1880s. The field was the largest natural...
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| x Agbami Field |
Agbami Field is an oil field in Nigeria. Discovered in late 1998, it was the second major deepwater oil field discovered off the Niger Delta, the first being Bonga Field by Shell.
The field is located in nearly 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) of water off...
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| x Peregrino |
Peregrino is an oil field located offshore Brazil in the southwest part of the Campos Basin area. The location is 85 km of the coast and water depth is 100 meters. Peregrino is a heavy crude oil of 13.8 API and with high viscosity. Sulfur content is...
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| x Norne oil field |
Norne is an oil field located around 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of the Heidrun oil field in the Norwegian Sea. The sea depth in the area is 380 metres (1,250 ft). The field is roughly 1,400 kilometres from the landfall at Dornum in Germany. Norne...
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| x Yuzhno-Russkoye field |
The Yuzhno-Russkoye field is a Russian oil and gas field located in the Krasnoselkupsky District, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast.
The Yuzhno-Russkoye field was discovered in 1969. Preparation for the development of the field started in...
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| x Valhall oil field |
Valhall is an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Discovered in 1975 (Ref. SPE 83957), production began in 1982 and is expected to continue until 2050. Valhall is located in 70 metres of water.
The field was originally developed with...
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| x Kurmangazy Field |
Kurmangazy oil field is an offshore oil field in the Kazakh section of Caspian Sea. It is located on the maritime border between Russia and Kazakhstan, about 120 kilometres (75 mi) west of the Buzachi Peninsula. Kurmangazy oil field is the third...
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| x Priobskoye field |
Priobskoye is an oil field in Russia. Discovered in 1982, it occupies an area of 5,466 square kilometers in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District of Western Siberia. It is located along both banks of the Ob River, 65 kilometers east of the...
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| x Sugar Loaf field |
The Carioca/Sugar Loaf field is a potential deepwater oil field in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of São Paulo, Brazil. The field is possibly part of an important emerging petroleum basin known as the Santos Basin. Two other large oil fields have...
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| x Jupiter field |
On January 21, 2008, Petrobras announced the discovery of the Jupiter field, a huge natural gas and condensate (very light oil) field which could equal the Tupi oil field in size (5-8 billion BOE). It is located in the Santos Basin, 37 km (23 mi)...
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| x Sagara Oil field |
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Sagara Oil Field (相良油田, Sagara Yuden) is located in Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Crude oil was discovered at Sagara Village in May 1873, and hand-pumping operations began almost immediately. From 1874, Nippon Oil (the predecessor to...
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| x Schiehallion oilfield |
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The Schiehallion oil field is a deepwater offshore development approximately 175 kilometres (110 mi) west of the Shetland Islands.
The Schiehallion and adjacent Loyal field were jointly developed by BP on behalf of the Schiehallion field partners;...
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| x Harding oilfield |
The Harding oilfield is a small oil field operated by BP, in the North Sea block 9/23b, approximately 200 miles (320 km) North-East of Aberdeen and in 110m of water.
The field was discovered in 1987, when oil was found in Eocene at a depth of 1850m....
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| x Zhanazhol Field |
Zhanazhol Field is an oil field located in the northwestern region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It was descovered in the 1960 and have been in production since 1987. Zhanazhol crude oil has a high mercaptan and hydrogen sulfide content.
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| x Draugen oil field |
Draugen is an oil field in the Norwegian Sea with a sea depth of 250 metres (800 ft). It is operated by Royal Dutch Shell. The field has been developed with a concrete fixed facility and integrated topside. Stabilized oil is stored in tanks in the...
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| x Foinaven oilfield |
Foinaven oil field is deepwater oil development approximately 190 kilometres (120 mi) west of the Shetland Islands. Together with Schiehallion, Loyal and Clair fields it forms the area generally termed as the West of Shetland.
Foinaven oil field was...
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| x Darwin Bank |
Darwin Bank (Azerbaijani: Darvin bankəsi) is an Azerbaijani bank oil field in the Caspian Sea, 45-50 km north-east of Baku. Industrially significant oil and natural gas resources were discovered here in 1950. In subsequent 57 years 16 million tons...
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The Hamburg oil field is a remote area in north-western Alberta, Canada, with intense exploration and production of oil and gas.
The closest town is Manning, at 180km east.
Drilling activity is especially intense during the winter months, when the...
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| x Dalia |
The Dalia oil field is an oil field in deepwater block 17, 135 kilometers off the coast of Cabinda, Angola. The field lies in water depths varying between 1200 and 1500 meters. Dalia oil field was discovered in September 1997 and brought into...
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| x Pembina oil field |
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The Pembina oil field is one of the largest and most prolific conventional oil fields in the province of Alberta, Canada.
The mature field is centered around Drayton Valley and is named for the Pembina River, which crosses the region from south...
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| x Caño Limón |
Caño Limón is an oil field in the municipalities of Arauca and Arauquita in Arauca Department, Colombia, on the border of Venezuela. It is the common name for the Caño Limón-Coveñas pipeline which travels 780 kilometers to Coveñas on Colombia's...
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| x Athabasca Oil Sands |
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The Athabasca Oil Sands (also known colloquially as the Athabasca Tar Sands although there is no actual tar) are large deposits of bitumen, or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada - roughly centered around the boomtown...
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| x Chicontepec Field |
The Chicontepec Basin is a petroleum system in Mexico located north-east of Mexico City, covering an area of around 3,800 km² in the states of Veracruz, Puebla and Hidalgo. Several oil fields have been discovered in that area since 1926. A major...
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| x Daqing Field |
Daqing Field (simplified Chinese: 大庆油田; traditional Chinese: 大慶油田; pinyin: Dàqìng Yóutián), formerly called "Taching", is the largest oil field in the People's Republic of China (PRC), located between the Songhua river and Nunjiang river in...
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| x Campos Basin |
Campos Basin is a petroleum rich area located offshore of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has a total area of 100,000 square kilometers, with 40 fields discovered and operated by Petrobras. Two major oil fields are Marlim and Albacora. Marlim is the...
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| x Niger Delta province |
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The Niger Delta province is a geologic province in the Niger Delta of West Africa also known as the Niger Delta Basin. The province contains one petroleum system, the "Tertiary Niger Delta (Akata-Agbada) Petroleum System" (classified as number...
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| x Samotlor Field |
Samotlor Field is the largest oil field of Russia, located at Lake Samotlor in Urals Federal District, Siberia (61°7′N 76°45′E / 61.117°N 76.75°E / 61.117; 76.75). Discovery of this field in 1965 had changed Nizhnevartovsk from a small nearby...
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| x Romashkino Field |
Romashkino Field is an oil field in Tatarstan, Russia. Discovered in 1948, it is the largest oil field of Volga-Ural basin. Romashkino Field had produced over 15 billion barrels (2.4 km³) of oil. Statistic analysis predicted depletion at 16.5 to 17...
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Bombay High is an offshore oilfield 160 km off the coast of Mumbai (Bombay).
The oil operations are run by India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
Bombay High field was discovered by a Russian and Indian oil exploration team operating from...
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| x Brae oilfield |
The Brae field is a Scottish oil field. Three accumulations total about 70 million tonnes of oil liquids and a further 22 cubic kilometres of gas. The main platforms currently produce from underlying reserves, with regular infill drilling to...
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| x Salt Creek Oil Field |
The Salt Creek Oil Field, located in the town of Midwest in Natrona County, Wyoming, approximately 40 mi (64 km) north of Casper, was at one time in the early 20th century the largest light crude oil field in the world. It was historically one of...
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| x Maui gas field |
The Maui natural gas field is located in the Tasman Sea, 35 km off the coast of Taranaki, New Zealand. It covers an area of 157 square kilometres and is located in 110 metres of water to the southwest of New Plymouth. Two platforms, Maui A and Maui...
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Wytch Farm is an oil field and processing facility in the Purbeck district of Dorset, England. It is the largest onshore oil field in western Europe. The facility, operated by BP, is hidden in a coniferous forest on Wytch Heath on the southern shore...
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| x Yadavaran Field |
Yadavaran Field oil field is one of the NIOC Recent Discoveries which is located in Khuzestan, Iran.
The name is new, as the field is made up of two former fields, Koushk (discovered in 2000) and Hosseinieh (discovered in 2002). After researchers...
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| x Atlantis Oil Field |
The Atlantis oil field is the third largest oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. The field was discovered in 1998 and is located in US federal waters about 130 miles (210 km) from the coast of Louisiana in 6,500 feet (2,000 m) of water.
It has estimated...
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| x Mid-Continent Oil Field |
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The Mid-continent oil province in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, was discovered and exploited during the first half of the 20th century. It is not a single oil field, but rather a broad area containing hundreds of...
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| x Ekofisk oil field |
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Ekofisk is an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Discovered in 1969, it remains one of the most important oil fields in the North Sea. Production began in 1971 after the construction of a series of off-shore platforms by Phillips...
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| x Statfjord oil field |
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Statfjord is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by StatoilHydro (and by Statoil prior to the merger). It is a "trans-median" field crossing the Norwegian and UK North Sea Boundary with circa 15% being in the UK...
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| x Gullfaks oil field |
Gullfaks is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by StatoilHydro. It was discovered in 1979, in block 34/10, at a water depth of 135 meters. The initial recoverable reserve is 2.1 billion barrels, and the remaining...
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| x Oseberg oil field |
Oseberg is an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
The Oseberg petroleum field in the North Sea is situated in approximately 150 metres of water in block 30/6 and 30/9 west of Bergen, Norway producing a little less than 1/2 million...
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| x Snorre oil field |
Snorre is an oil and gas field in the Tampen area in the northern part of the North Sea. The sea depth in the area is 300-350 meters. Snorre A in the south is a floating steel facility (TLP) for accommodation, drilling and processing. Snorre A has...
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Troll is a natural gas and oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, 100 km North-West of Bergen, 50 km west of the island of Fedje.
Although Troll is primarily a gas field – one of the biggest in the North Sea, holding 60% of Norway’s gas...
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