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

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
Bir El Msana (BMS)	Operating	Cepsa	Cepsa (75.0%); Sonatrach (25.0%)	2003	–	2015	Conventional

Production and Reserves

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

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	reserves	35	million bbl	2021	​

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

Location

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

Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Berkine	Onshore, Algeria	Onshore	31.7834, 8.5871 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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