Ourhoud Oil Field (Algeria)

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Ourhoud Oil Field is an operating oil field in Algeria.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Ourhoud 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
Ourhoud	Operating	Cepsa	Sonatrach (36.0%); Cepsa (39.0%); Anadarko (9.0%); Eni S.P.A. (5.0%); Other (11.0%)	1994	–	2002	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Ourhoud Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	reserves	1900	million bbl	2016	​
oil	EUR	1000	million bbl	2001	​

Table 3: Production from Ourhoud Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	0.12	million bbl/y	2016
production	oil	45.62	million bbl/y	2019

Location

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

Concession/Block	Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Block 404, Block 405a, Block 406a	Berkine	Onshore, Algeria	Onshore	30.4595, 8.1248 (exact)

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