Zelten Oil Field (Libya)

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Zelten Oil Field (زلطن) is an operating oil field in Libya.

Zelten Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as Nasser, Zliten.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Zelten 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
Zelten	Operating	Sirte Oil Company	Sirte Oil Company (100.0%)	1959	–	1961	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Zelten Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	reserves	166.44	million bbl	2010	​

Table 3: Production from Zelten Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	9.86	million bbl/y	2016
production	oil	10.95	million bbl/y	2014

Location

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

Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Sirte	Onshore, Libya	Onshore	28.914, 19.77 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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