Taq Taq Oil Field (Iraq)

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Taq Taq Oil Field (طق طق) is an operating oil field in Iraq.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Taq Taq 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
Taq Taq	Operating	Genel Energy	Genel Energy International (55.0%); Addax Petroleum Corp. (45.0%)	1978	–	1994	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Taq Taq Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	reserves	59	million bbl	2017	​

Table 3: Production from Taq Taq 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	207.9	million bbl	2017
production	oil	6.93	million bbl/y	2017
production	oil	2.17	million bbl/y	2021

Location

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

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Onshore, Iraq	Onshore	35.963, 44.671 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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