Talk:List of oil fields

message: 1.7 trillion in venezuela!? or is it billion?
Oil reserves are classified into categories - proven, probable and possible.  The tar sands in venezuela do not fit into any of these quantities due to two reasons.  1)It's very heavy oil and not conventional oil (it contains a lot of contaminants like sulfur, heavy metals and carbon) 2) It's a possible reserve.
It's approximately 1,700 Billion barrels of oil in place.  You cannot extract but maybe 50% of this oil at most.  Furthermore, it takes a LOT of energy to extract heavy crude oil.  Kgrr 03:27, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Billion or trillion 

message: I am removing the reserve percentages.  It is not adequate to only take the numbers posted here.  This gives a distorted view of a country's oil reserves and constitutes original research.  The BP statistical review of world energy has the numbers we need.  I'll add it to my to do list. 
--129.173.105.28 16:13, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Percentages 

message: I think it would be good to add an extra column to the page covering date of discovery of each oil field —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.96.0.8 (talk) 13:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this is a great idea.  I would like to also suggest two columns with the date when the fields were brought into production and the date when peaked.  Perhaps the date when they were exhausted.  If this is voted OK, I will provide the needed research.  Kgrr 13:43, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional information on this page? 

message: User:Beagel proposed a merge of this table with the table I created at Peak oil/Table of largest oil fields.  There was no discussion on my proposal (above) to add the columns, and the order of this table is not by size, but by geographic location.  
This table in its current form does not convey the fact that most of the large oil fields that produce the most oil per day have peaked and all the new oil fields that are being found are much smaller in size and production than the super-elephants listed in the table of largest oil fields.  I have trouble with some of the numbers in the table since no references are given as a source for the data.  Some figures like the Orinoco Tar sands and the Athabasca Oil sands should only list recoverable reserves, not what may be in the ground.  Furthermore, it does not make much sense to list relatively small oil fields since their contribution to the World's appetite for oil is small.
Hence, it does not make any sense in listing any oil field that has less than 1 billion barrels.  My table stops at 10 Billion bbls.  If they are ordered by size, the log-normal distribution of the oil field sizes becomes readily evident.  Succinctly put, there are just a few large oil fields and they are running out.  To take their place, it will take many more medium sized ones.  For example, to replace the oil flow from Ghawar will take 20-30 Jack 2's Kgrr 04:50, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The merger proposal is already 1.5 years old and there seem to be consensus about this. Should we go forward with this? for more discussion please see Talk:List of largest oil fields#Merger_proposal. Beagel (talk) 07:02, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Merge with [[List of largest oil fields]] 

message: Since when has the C.A.R., Uganda or Mali had any oil fieds and 2 of Mareauiania's oil fields ('Omar' and 1 other) gave no Goole hits and are thus, probaly fakes.--86.29.246.201 (talk) 20:58, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Those were all added by someone with an IP address quite similar to yours. Are you questioning your own work? Cheers Geologyguy (talk) 21:55, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Those links to articles about farmouts have no information regarding fields, except a mention of M'Boundi field in Congo, and perhaps a discovery (not confirmed as a field) in Uganda. Geologyguy (talk) 16:45, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The [[C.A.R.]]! 

message: Abu Dhabi is not a country
It is listed as one in this article
It's part of the U.A.E.
— Stevey7788 (talk) 00:11, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abu Dhabi not a country 

message: Each oil field should have to list the number of deaths they have yearly.  http://www.dothaneagle.com/dea/news/local/article/us_oilfield_deaths_rise_sharply/35837/ Stars4change (talk) 06:32, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add deaths in oil fields 

message: The list hasn't nothing about the Brazilian Marlim oil field.Agre22 (talk) 00:15, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nothing about Marlim 

message: The article has nothing about Halfaya oil field in Iraq.Agre22 (talk) 16:14, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nothing about Halfaya oil field 

message: I just did a little bit work in the Timan-Pechora Basin-Article, in German Wiki I have created this article but under "Timan Petschora Oilfield". You can see production from 2004 to 2011 almost 130 million tons of oil were produced in the article I linked. If I remember correct 1 ton is around ~7.3 barrel. This would mean that 130 million tons of oil are exactly 949 million barrels. So production in this "field/basin"? already cumulated far over 1 billion barrels and production is going on? Greetings from Berlin, Europe :) Kilon22 (talk) 19:14, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basins are not allowed or? 

message: This article is for fields larger than 1 billion reserve. In the table Toot is written 1 billion, but in the article:
There are about 60 million barrels (9,500,000 m3) of oil in place with 12%-15% of which is recoverable. At its peak during 1986, the field was producing approximately 2,400-barrel (380 m3) of oil per day.
2,400 Barrels peak is nothing, and 60 million reserves of which 12-15% (15% = 9 million barrels) are recoverable is a joke too. Maximum 9 million barrels... so 991 million are missing to the "1 billion" which is written in the table... Kilon22 (talk) 13:21, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toot, Pakistan is wrong here 

message: Where are the Tengiz numbers are from? .530... 530,000 barrels per day, the links is dead:  "The List: Taking Oil Fields Offline". August 2006.
In August 2006 the Production of Tengiz never ever could have been 530,000 barrels per day! It is hard to get information about currenct production for the field, but I found information that Tengizchevroil production is lower than 1 year ago. 
In September 2008, Chevron Corporation announced that the major expansion of Tengiz field was completed and it would boost the production capacity to 540,000 barrels per day (86,000 m3/d). In 2012 Chevron announced the field will see its total daily production increase by 250,000-300,000 barrels, bringing production above 500,000 barrels per day.
Greetings Kilon22 (talk) 12:06, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
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message: Hey,
in the List we have some fields with very strange numbers, best Example is the Bolivar Coastal oil field, the article says it was discovered already 99 years ago in 1917, and production started almost immediately, right after World War 2 Venezuela was the second largest producer in the world, with US being the "Saudi Arabia" of today, and the Soviets destroyed everything they could not transport away from Maikop (3rd largest oil source during WW2 and shortly after the war), they also set the Maikop fields on fire... Grozny (back than almost nobody knew the Chechnya capital), however it was Number 2 and same plans were already made (transport things away, destroy what can't be transported and set fire on the oil sources, but this did not happen in Grozny, only a little bit reduced output since some things already were moved east.... Baku was the absolutely most important oil field, one of the worlds largest, but still directly after war the Soviet Union did not produce that much if we see Venezuela being No. 2 for I think 15 years, and than No. 3 for another 10 years... from 1945 to 1960 the worldwide No. 2 producer (Venezuela), in 1961 the Soviet Union became 2nd and Venezuela stayed 3rd largest producer for another 10 years until 1970, in 1971 than Saudi-Arabia kicked out Venezuela from the Top 3... 
But today Venezuela is collapsing right now because of the petrodollar shortage... combined with the fact that the PDVSA (state owned oil company) was used as a cow by Chavez until he died... he took Milk away but did not give the cows enough grass (or what cows eat^^) to eat... so exploration and drilling was reduced extreme heavy since most of the income was directly taken by Chavez... But there is written that the 99 years ago discovered Bolivar Coastal oil field, which started production in 1922, making it now 94 years old, produces 2.6 to 3.0 million barrels a day.. that is impossible since whole Venezuelan Oil production is lower than 2.6 - 3.0 million barrels, and since there are other fields operating too, most of these are very heavy oil which has to be sold with a discount, but yea... maybe it peaked at ~2.6 (article about the fields says production is 2.6 million). 
The ref tells this, but the ref (http://petroglobalnews.com/2013/10/top-ten-highest-producing-oil-fields/) tells us too that the Ghawar Field is No. 1 with ~5 million barrels a day, which is one of the few correct numbers... but on Number 2 they write that the Oseberg field which was discovered in 1979 and production started in 1988, they write this field produces 3,780,000 b/d ... which is not possible since again that number is far higher than whole Norwegian oil production (even though Norway and Russia made a 50/50 agreement about territories both claim, they collect experience and produce a bit oil and natural gas there... so maybe Oseberg peaked, in the article here there is written that current production is 14,121 m3/d (88,820 bbl/d). 88,820 bpd and 3,780,000 bpd... shows how good the ref is... just wanted to mention this (again?!)... Greetings Kilon22 (talk) 23:33, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
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message: Hi guys only I have an "optic" error?! There is a picture at a position where it has not been before (maybe because the article has a "warning" that information is/could be old?) or someone changed something, I do not know exactly...
I made some edits in the past, I will check, I updated Cantarrel for example quite often since it is the hardcore version of depletion and "overproduction" at all costs since operating an offshore platform is expensive, so 2.1 million barrels per day were produced in ~2004 (which is far too much for such a field, especially since it is already producing since 1981... 
the steadily increasing oil prices up to the Summer 2008 extreme high price made it attractive and they produced more than 50% of mexicos whole oil output from Cantarrel alone in 2004, later all "experts" said it will stabilize at 500k, than 450k, than 400k... and I looked 2 years ago or so and it was already well below 400k and decreasing month by month..... I think it won't stabilize before maybe 200k or 175k... since no investions will be done, Ka-Maloop-Zaap is the new 3-field (very close to each other, thats why its called as one with all 3 names in it), this field produced over 800,000 barrels over 2 years ago and investments will be done there after the OPEC cut (Mexico agreed to a small reduction like Russia, Oman, Azerbaijan and other smaller non-opec producers)
However I try to find new data, Greetings Kilon22 (talk) 22:41, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
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message: The Johan Sverdrup oil field should be added to the list. --Hg6996 (talk) 06:44, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sverdrup is missing