Yucal Placer Gas Field (Venezuela)

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Yucal Placer Gas Field is an operating gas field in Venezuela.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Yucal Placer Gas 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
Yucal Placer	Operating	Ypergas	Sucre Energy Group (69.5%); Repsol (15.0%); Inepetrol; Otepi	1947	–	1950	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Yucal Placer Gas Field

million m³ = million cubic meters

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
gas	remaining reserves	1614.05	million m³	2021	​

Table 3: Production from Yucal Placer Gas Field

million m³/y = million cubic meters per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	gas	1033.56	million m³/y	2012

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Yucal Placer Gas Field

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Onshore, Venezuela	Onshore	9.694, -66.248 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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