Lower Zakum Oil Field (United Arab Emirates)

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Lower Zakum Oil Field is an operating oil field in United Arab Emirates.

Along with Lower Zakum LTDP-2 Oil and Gas Field (United Arab Emirates) and Lower Zakum LTDP-1 Oil and Gas Field (United Arab Emirates), Lower Zakum Oil Field is a part of the Lower Zakum complex.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Lower Zakum 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
Lower Zakum	Operating	ADNOC Offshore	Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (60.0%); ONGC (10.0%); INPEX Corporation (10.0%); CNPC (10.0%); Other (10.0%)	1963	–	1967	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Lower Zakum Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	1P reserves	17200	million bbl	[not stated]	​

Table 3: Production from Lower Zakum Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production design capacity	oil	155.12	million bbl/y	2020
production design capacity	oil	164.25	million bbl/y	2025

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Lower Zakum Oil Field

Concession/Block	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Lower Zakum	Offshore, United Arab Emirates	Offshore	24.853, 53.662 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the field(s) within the Lower Zakum complex:

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