Safwan Oil Field (Iraq)

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Safwan Oil Field (صفوان) is an operating oil field in Iraq.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Safwan 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
Safwan	Operating	Basra Oil Company	Basra Oil Company	1984	–	1989	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Safwan Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	reserves	500	million bbl	2008	​
oil	proven reserves	200	million bbl	2022	​

Table 3: Production from Safwan Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	3.65	million bbl/y	2008
production	oil	18.25	million bbl/y	2022

Location

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

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Onshore, Iraq	Onshore	30.124, 47.7264 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the field:

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