Rubiales Oil Field (Meta, Colombia)

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Rubiales Oil Field is an operating oil field in Meta, Colombia.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Rubiales 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
Rubiales	Operating	Ecopetrol S.A.	Ecopetrol S.A. (100.0%)	1981	–	1988	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Rubiales Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	1P reserves	248	million bbl	2020	​

Table 3: Production from Rubiales 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	37.08	million bbl	2022
production	oil	43.55	million bbl/y	2019
production	oil	37.06	million bbl/y	2022

Location

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

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Meta, Colombia	Onshore	3.799, -71.443 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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