Qurna West 2 Oil Field (Iraq)

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Qurna West 2 Oil Field (غرب القرنة) is an operating oil field in Iraq.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Qurna West 2 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
Qurna West 2	Operating^[1]^[2]	Lukoil and North Oil Company^[1]	Lukoil (75.0%); North Oil Company (25.0%)^[1]	1973^[3]	–	2014^[4]	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Qurna West 2 Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil
Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	recoverable reserves	12900	million bbl	2016	^[5]
oil	recoverable reserves	13000	million bbl	2019	^[1]

Table 3: Production from Qurna West 2 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	733	million bbl	2019	^[1]
production	oil	146	million bbl/y	2023	^[6]
production design capacity	oil	292	million bbl/y	2025	^[7]

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Qurna West 2 Oil Field


Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Onshore, Iraq^[8]	Onshore^[9]	30.655, 47.305 (approximate)^[8]

The map below shows the approximate location of the field:

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Articles and Resources

Additional Data

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References

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[Lukoil2016-5] "Annual Report 2016: The Sea of Opportunities" (PDF). Luckoil. 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2021.

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