Zarzaitine Oil Field (Algeria)

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Zarzaitine Oil Field is an operating oil field in Algeria.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Zarzaitine 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
Zarzaitine	Operating	Sonatrach	Sonatrach (100.0%)	1957	–	1960	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Production from Zarzaitine Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	13.3	million bbl/y	2002

Location

Table 3: Field-level location details for Zarzaitine Oil Field

Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Illizi	Onshore, Algeria	Onshore	28.005, 9.671 (exact)

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