Sarqala Oil Field (Iraq)

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Sarqala Oil Field is an operating oil field in Iraq.

Sarqala Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as Sarkala.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Sarqala 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
Sarqala	Operating	Gazprom Neft	Gazprom Neft (40.0%); WesternZagros Limited (40.0%); Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) (20.0%)	2011	–	2011	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Sarqala Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	2P reserves	13	million bbl	2016	​

Table 3: Production from Sarqala Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	1.8	million bbl/y	2017

Location

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

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Onshore, Iraq	Onshore	34.7161, 43.8105 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the field:

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