Foroozan Oil Field (Saudi Arabia-Iran)

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Foroozan Oil Field (فزران) is an operating oil field in Saudi Arabia-Iran.

Foroozan Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as Forouzan.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Foroozan 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
Foroozan	Operating	Iranian Offshore Oil Company	National Iranian Oil Company (100.0%)	1966	–	1975	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Foroozan Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	initial reserves	2309	million bbl	2020	​
oil	primary reserves	320.7	million bbl	2007	​
oil	secondary reserves	0	million bbl	2007	​
oil	recoverable reserves	320.7	million bbl	2007	​
oil	reserves	34	million bbl	2003	​
oil	remaining reserves	2300	million bbl	2021	​

Table 3: Production from Foroozan Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year
million bbl = million barrels of oil

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
cumulative production	oil	763	million bbl	2016
cumulative production	oil	550	million bbl	2002
production	oil	14.6	million bbl/y	2020
production	oil	13.87	million bbl/y	2016
production	oil	36.5	million bbl/y	1987
production	oil	14.6	million bbl/y	2000
production design capacity	oil	36.5	million bbl/y	1987

Location

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

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Offshore, Saudi Arabia-Iran	Offshore	28.3995, 49.6511 (exact)

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