Bir El Msana (BMS) Oil Field (Algeria)

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Bir El Msana (BMS) Oil Field is an operating oil field in Algeria.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Bir El Msana (BMS) Oil Field

*Final Investment Decision
Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID* year	Production start year
Bir El Msana (BMS)	Operating^[1]	Cepsa^[2]	Cepsa (75.0%); Sonatrach (25.0%)^[2]	2003^[2]	–	2015^[3]

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Bir El Msana (BMS) Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil
Fuel Description	Reserve Classification	Quantity	Units	Data Year	Source
oil	reserves	35	million bbl	2021	^[2]

Table 3: Production from Bir El Msana (BMS) Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year
Category	Fuel Description	Quantity	Units	Data Year	Source
production	oil	4.56	million bbl/y	2018	^[4]

Location

Table 4: field-level location details for Bir El Msana (BMS) Oil Field


Basin	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Berkine	Onshore, Algeria^[5]	26.4178, 9.0796 (approximate)^[5]

The map below shows the approximate location of the field:

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Articles and Resources

Additional data

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References

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