United States
19 oil fields
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....
East Texas Field
Discovered 1930, onshore Texas, over 5 billion barrels produced....
Wasson Field
Discovered 1936, West Texas, over 2 billion barrels ultimate recovery....
Yates Field
Discovered 1926, West Texas, famous for wells that flowed on their own....
Wilmington Field
Discovered 1932, beneath Long Beach harbor, California, over 2.5 billion barrels in place....
Kern River Field
Discovered 1899, San Joaquin Valley, California, billions of barrels of heavy oil....
Midway-Sunset Field
Discovered 1894, San Joaquin Valley, California, the largest heavy oil field in the state....
Kuparuk River Field
Discovered 1969, Alaskan North Slope, second largest US oil field....
Bakken Formation
First produced 1953, North Dakota and Montana, past 1 million barrels per day at peak....
Eagle Ford Shale
Discovered 2008, South Texas, past 1.5 million barrels per day at peak....
Marcellus Shale
Identified 1839, Appalachian basin, the largest US gas shale....
Haynesville Shale
Developed from 2008, Louisiana and Texas, a top tier dry gas play....
Hugoton Field
Discovered 1919, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, one of the largest gas fields in North America....
Thunder Horse
Discovered 1999, deepwater Gulf of Mexico, about 250,000 barrels per day....
Mars Platform
Discovered 1989, deepwater Gulf of Mexico, around 200,000 barrels per day....
Atlantis Field
Discovered 1998, deepwater Gulf of Mexico, about 200,000 barrels per day....
Perdido Hub
Discoveries from 2002, ultra deepwater Gulf of Mexico, about 100,000 barrels per day....
Spindletop
Discovered 1901, onshore Texas, the Lucas gusher that launched the Texas oil boom....