Peak oil/Table of largest oil fields

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Oil fields > 10bb
Field Country Discovered Started Production Peaked Reserves (Billion Barrels) Production (Million Barrels/day) Rate of Decline
Ghawar Field Saudi Arabia 1948[1] 1951[1] 2005[2], disputed[3] 75-83[4][5] 5[6] 8% per year[citation needed]
Burgan Field Kuwait 1938 1948 2005[7] 66-72[8][5] 1.7[9] 14% per year[citation needed]
Ferdows/Mound/Zagheh Field Iran 2003 38[10]
Sugar Loaf field Brazil 2007 25-40[11] Not yet developed
Cantarell Field Mexico 1976 1981 2004[12] 35[5], 18 billion recoverable 1.8 [13] peaked in 2004 at 2.14 million barrels per day (340,000 m³/d)[13]
Bolivar Coastal Field Venezuela 1917 30-32[5] 2.6-3[5]
Azadegan field Iran 2004 26[14]
Tupi Field Santos Basin, Brazil 2007 5-8
Safaniya-Khafji Field Saudi Arabia/Neutral Zone 1951 30
Esfandiar Field Iran 30
Rumaila Field Iraq 1953 17[15] 1.3[15]
Tengiz Field Kazakhstan 1979 15-26[5] .53[5] Expanding from 285k to 1.3 m bpd[1]
Ahwaz Field Iran 1958 1970s[16] 10.1 .700[17] Expected to surpass original peak due to new gas injection.[2]
Kirkuk Field Iraq 1927 1934 8.5 .480
Shaybah Field Saudi Arabia 15
Agha Jari Field Iran 1937 8.7 .200
Majnoon Field Iraq 11-20[15] .5[15]
Samotlor Field West Siberia, Russia 1965 1969 1980[18] 14-16 .974 [19] Currently rising from 450k to 500k bpd due to renewed investment, down from 1.1B in 1980.[20] (cum. depletion: 71%) [19]
Romashkino Field Volga-Ural, Russia 1948 1949 in decline 16-17 .295 (2004) [19] cum. depletion: 84% [19]
Prudhoe Bay Alaska 1969 in decline[citation needed] 13 0.9 11% per year[citation needed]
Kashagan Field Kazakhstan 2000 13
Serir Field Libya 1961 12 (6.5 billion recoverable)
Priobskoye field West Siberia, Russia 1982 2000 13 0.4 (2005) Production rapidly expanding.[21]
Lyantorskoye field West Siberia, Russia 1966 1979 13 0.168 (2004) [19] cum. depletion: 81% [19]
Abqaiq Field Saudi Arabia 12 0.43[22]
Chicontepec Field Mexico 1926 6.5 [13] (19 certified)[23]
Berri Field Saudi Arabia 12
Zakum Field Abu Dhabi, UAE 1965[24] 1967 12
West Qurna Field Iraq 15-21 [15] 0.18-.25 (pot.)*civil war [15]
Manifa Field Saudi Arabia 11
Fyodorovskoye Field West Siberia, Russia 1971 1974 11 1.9 (197x)
East Baghdad Field Iraq 8 [15] 0-.05 (pot.)*civil war [15]
Faroozan-Marjan Field Saudi Arabia/Iran 10
Marlim Field Campos Basin, Brazil in decline 10-14 8% per year[25]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b The Elephant of All Elephants (English). AAPG.
  2. ^ Donald Coxe. "Has Ghawar truly peaked?", 2005-03-31. (English) 
  3. ^ Another Day in the Desert.
  4. ^ Oil Supply and Demand.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g The List: Taking Oil Fields Offline (English) (2006-08).
  6. ^ Ghawar Field
  7. ^ "Burgan Field: Kuwait's Biggest Oil Field Starts to Run Out of Oil", 2005-11-12. (English) 
  8. ^ Oil Supply and Demand.
  9. ^ Burgan Field
  10. ^ Iran's oil bonanza and its problems.
  11. ^ Three supergiant fields discovered offshore Brazil.
  12. ^ "Mexico Oil Production going down January 2007". 
  13. ^ a b c "Mexico Energy Data", 2007-12-20. (English) 
  14. ^ Japan's Iran Dilemma and Oil.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h DOE: Iraq Energy Data (2007-08-01).
  16. ^ Blackwell Energy Research Oil and Energy Trends
  17. ^ Iran Country Analysis Brief (2007-10-01).
  18. ^ Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - TNK to revive Samotlor oil field
  19. ^ a b c d e f DOE: Russia Energy Data (some data from 2004) (2007-04-01).
  20. ^ Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - TNK to revive Samotlor oil field
  21. ^ Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Yukos to double output from Priobskoye field
  22. ^ The Impact of the Abqaiq Attack on Saudi Energy Security.
  23. ^ Mexico's northern region launches massive development - Pemex Exploration and Production - Statistical Data Included.
  24. ^ United Arab Emirates - Persian Gulf.
  25. ^ New information on the Cambridge Energy analysis of world oil supplies.