Pacassa Oil Field (Angola)

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Pacassa Oil Field is an operating oil field in Angola.

Along with 7 other assets (listed on Block 3/05 Oil and Gas Complex (Angola)), Pacassa Oil Field is a part of the Block 3/05 Oil and Gas Complex (Angola).

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Pacassa 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
Pacassa	Operating	Sonangol E.P.	Sonangol E.P. (30.0%); Maurel & Prom (20.0%); Eni S.P.A. (12.0%); Somoil (10.0%); Afentra (24.0%)	1982	–	1986	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Pacassa Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	original oil in place	1103	million bbl	2022	​

Table 3: Production from Pacassa 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	506	million bbl	2022
production	oil	16.94	million bbl/y	2002
production	oil	27.74	million bbl/y	1998

Location

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

Concession/Block	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Block 3/05	Offshore, Angola	Offshore	-7.1191, 12.314 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field(s) within the Block 3/05 Complex complex:

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