Shaikan Oil Field (Iraq)

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Shaikan Oil Field (شيخان) is an operating oil field in Iraq.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Shaikan 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
Shaikan	Operating	Gulf Keystone Petroleum	Gulf Keystone Petroleum (80.0%); MOL Group (20.0%)	2009	–	2013	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Shaikan Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	2P reserves	505	million bbl	2020	​

Table 3: Production from Shaikan Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	16.21	million bbl/y	2021
production	oil	76.87	million bbl/y	2024

Location

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

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Onshore, Iraq	Onshore	36.8292, 43.267 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the field:

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