Orca Oil Field (Angola)

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Orca Oil Field is a discovered oil field in Angola.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Orca 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
Orca	Discovered	TotalEnergies	Sonangol E.P. (20.0%); BP (30.0%); TotalEnergies (50.0%)	2014	–	–	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Orca Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	reserves	733	million bbl	2015	​
oil	resource potential	550	million bbl	2013	​

Location

Table 3: Field-level location details for Orca Oil Field

Concession/Block	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Block 20/11	Offshore, Angola	Offshore	-9.373, 12.521 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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