Wafra Oil Field
CountryKuwait
RegionGreat Burgan
Offshore/onshoreonshore
Coordinates28°37′3″N 47°53′58″E / 28.61750°N 47.89944°E / 28.61750; 47.89944
OperatorChevron Corporation
Field history
Discovery1954
Start of production1954[1]
Production
Current production of oil600,000 barrels per day (~3.0×10^7 t/a)
Estimated oil in place3505 million tonnes
(~ 4.0×10^9 m3 or 25000 million bbl)

The Wafra Oil Field is an oil field located in the Great Burgan. It was discovered in 1984 and developed by Kuwait Oil Company. The oil field is operated and owned by Chevron Corporation. The total proven reserves of the Wafra oil field are around 25 billion barrels (3505×106 tonnes), and production is centered on 600,000 barrels per day (95,000 m3/d).[2]

References

  1. "ENERGY COUNTRY REVIEW - KUWAIT" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  2. Vassiliou, Marius S. (2011). The A to Z of the petroleum industry. ISBN 9780810870666. Retrieved 2014-05-15.


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