List of oil fields

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

• Energy portal

• Athabasca Oil Sands
• Giant oil and gas fields
• List of coalfields
• List of natural gas fields
• List of oil and gas fields of the North Sea
• OAPEC
• Oil megaprojects
• Oil shale reserves
• OPEC
• Petrol
• Petroleum Reservoir

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