Zuata Principal Oil Field (Venezuela)

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Zuata Principal Oil Field is an operating oil field in Venezuela.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Zuata Principal 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
Zuata Principal	Operating	Petro San Félix	PDVSA (60.0%); Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana (CVG) (40.0%)	1985	–	–	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Zuata Principal Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	proven reserves	52501	million bbl	2016	​
total liquids	1P reserves	14508	million bbl	2004	​

Table 3: Production from Zuata Principal Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	84.68	million bbl/y	2012
production	total liquids	108.77	million bbl/y	2004
production	oil	97.82	million bbl/y	2016

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Zuata Principal Oil Field

Concession/Block	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Junin	Onshore, Venezuela	Onshore	8.4187, -64.7396 (approximate)

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