Defa Oil Field (Libya)

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Defa Oil Field (دفة) is an operating oil field in Libya.

Defa Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as Daffah.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Defa 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
Defa	Operating	Waha Oil Company	Waha Oil Company (100.0%)	1960	–	–	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Defa Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	EUR	1096.62	million bbl	2010	​

Table 3: Production from Defa Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	18.25	million bbl/y	[not stated]
production	oil	103.01	million bbl/y	2010

Location

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

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Onshore, Libya	Onshore	27.9882, 19.9054 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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