Amal Oil Field (Libya)

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Amal Oil Field (آمال) is an operating oil field in Libya.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Amal Oil Field

¹Final Investment Decision
²If a country or region is known to not produce any hydrocarbons in an unconventional method, this production type is assumed to be conventional

Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID1 year	Production start year	Production type2
Amal	Operating	Harouge Oil Operations Company	Harouge Oil Operations Company (100.0%)	1959	–	–	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Amal Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	reserves	2500	million bbl	2024	​

Table 3: Production from Amal Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	9.12	million bbl/y	2018
production	oil	12.78	million bbl/y	2012
production	oil	146	million bbl/y	[not stated]

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Amal Oil Field

Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Sirte	Onshore, Libya	Onshore	29.4842, 21.1025 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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