Zubair Oil Field (Iraq)

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Zubair Oil Field (زبير) is an operating oil field in Iraq.

Zubair Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as Zubayr.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Zubair 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
Zubair	Operating	Basra Oil Company	Eni S.P.A. (32.81%); Korean Gas Corporation (KOGAS) (18.75%); Missan Oil Company (25.0%); Basra Oil Company (23.44%)	1948	–	1949	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Zubair Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	reserves	4000	million bbl	[not stated]	​

Table 3: Production from Zubair Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	80.3	million bbl/y	2024
production design capacity	oil	255.5	million bbl/y	2025

Location

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

Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Onshore, Iraq	Onshore	30.4189, 47.608 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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