Messla Oil Field (Libya)

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Messla Oil Field (مسـلـه) is an operating oil field in Libya.

Messla Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as Mesla.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Messla 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
Messla	Operating	Arabian Gulf Oil Company	National Oil Corporation (Libya) (100.0%)	1971	–	–	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Messla Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	original oil in place	3250	million bbl	2018	​

Table 3: Production from Messla Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	3.65	million bbl/y	2020
production design capacity	oil	36.5	million bbl/y	2023

Location

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

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Onshore, Libya	Onshore	27.9881, 22.3296 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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