Some of the major oilfields of the past and present
Countries by Oil Production in 2013
An oil field in California
This list of oil fields includes some major oil fields of the past and present.
Countries by proven oil reserves 2017
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 1,500 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 3 trillion barrels (4.8× 1011 m3 )) 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 1 billion barrels (160 million cubic metres)
Field
Location
Discovered
Started production
Peaked
Recoverable oil, past and future (billion barrels)
Production (million barrels/day)
Rate of decline
Ghawar Field
Saudi Arabia
1948[ 3]
1951[ 3]
2005,[ 4] disputed[ 5]
88-104[ 6]
3.8[ 7]
8 % per year[ 8]
Burgan Field
Kuwait
1937
1948
2005[ 9]
66-72[ 8]
1.7[ 10]
14 % per year[citation needed ]
Ahvaz Field
Iran
1958
1970s[ 11]
25 recoverable[ 12]
0.75[ 13]
Upper Zakum oil field
Abu Dhabi , UAE
1963[ 14]
1982[ 15] [ 16] (1967[ 14] )
Production still increasing
21 recoverable[ 15] [ 14] )
0.75[ 15]
Extension planned to 1 MMb/d[ 17]
Gachsaran Field
Iran
1927
1930
1974
66[ 18]
0.48
Cantarell Field
Mexico
1976
1981
2004[ 19]
18–35 billion recoverable[ 8]
0.16[ 20]
peaked in 2004 at 2.14 million barrels per day (340,000 m3 /d)[ 20]
Ku-Maloob-Zaap
Mexico
1979
1981
2015
0.72
Production peaked at 853000 bpd in 2018
Bolivar Coastal Field
Venezuela
1917
1922
30–32[ 8]
2.6–3[ 8]
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[ 22]
Tengiz Field
Kazakhstan
1979
1993
2010
26–40[ 8]
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[ 22]
0.5[ 22]
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)[ 26]
depletion: 85 %[ 26]
Prudhoe Bay
United States , Alaska
1967–68
1977
1988[ 28]
13 recoverable
0.32
11 % per year[citation needed ]
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)[ 26]
depletion: 81 %[ 26]
Abqaiq Field
Saudi Arabia
1940
1940
12
0.43[ 30]
Chicontepec Field
Mexico
1926
6.5[ 20] (19 certified)[ 31]
Berri Field
Saudi Arabia
1964
12
West Qurna Field
Iraq
1973
15–21[ 22]
0.18–0.25 (pot.)* civil war [ 22]
Manifa Field
Saudi Arabia
1957
11
Fyodorovskoye Field
Russia, West Siberia
1971
1974
11
1.9 (197x)
East Baghdad Field
Iraq
1976
8[ 22]
0–0.05 (pot.)* civil war [ 22]
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[ 33]
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[ 23]
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 Field
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[ 42]
Kern River
United States , California
1899
2.5[ 42]
Midway-Sunset Field
United States , California
1894
3.4[ 42]
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
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