Resalat Oil Field (Iran)

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Resalat Oil Field is an operating oil field in Iran.

Resalat Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as Rakhsh.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Resalat 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
Resalat	Operating	Iranian Offshore Oil Company	National Iranian Oil Company (100.0%)	1967	–	1969	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Resalat Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	recoverable reserves	350	million bbl	2001	​
oil	original oil in place	1460.4	million bbl	2007	​
oil	primary reserves	108.1	million bbl	2007	​
oil	secondary reserves	36.4	million bbl	2007	​
oil	recoverable reserves	244.6	million bbl	2007	​

Table 3: Production from Resalat Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	5.84	million bbl/y	2011

Location

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

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Offshore, Iran	Offshore	25.9844, 53.1499 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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