OilFieldDB
106 great oil fields and petroleum provinces, from Ghawar and Burgan to Prudhoe Bay, the Permian Basin and the North Sea. Browse by type and region, with discovery years, peak output and field histories.
Key Fields
Ghawar Field
Discovered 1948, onshore Saudi Arabia, over 5 million barrels per day at its 1980s peak....
Safaniya Field
Discovered 1951, offshore Saudi Arabia, over 1 million barrels per day of heavy and medium crude....
Greater Burgan Field
Discovered 1938, onshore Kuwait, capacity around 1.7 million barrels per day....
Rumaila Field
Discovered 1953, onshore Iraq, about 1.4 million barrels per day....
Kirkuk Field
Discovered 1927, onshore Iraq, the field that opened Middle East oil....
Permian Basin
Producing since the 1920s, West Texas and New Mexico, over 5 million barrels per day in the 2020s....
Prudhoe Bay Field
Discovered 1968, Alaskan North Slope, peak about 1.5 million barrels per day in 1980....
Bakken Formation
First produced 1953, North Dakota and Montana, past 1 million barrels per day at peak....
Cantarell Field
Discovered 1976, Campeche Sound, peak 2.2 million barrels per day in 2004....
Samotlor Field
Discovered 1965, West Siberia, peak above 3 million barrels per day....
Tengiz Field
Discovered 1979, onshore Caspian lowland, about 700,000 barrels per day....
Vaca Muerta
Developed from 2010, Neuquen Basin, the leading shale play outside North America....
South Pars North Dome
Discovered 1971, offshore Iran and Qatar, the largest gas field in the world....
Groningen Field
Discovered 1959, onshore Netherlands, one of the largest gas fields in Europe....