Offshore Fields
46 oil fields
Safaniya Field
Discovered 1951, offshore Saudi Arabia, over 1 million barrels per day of heavy and medium crude....
Manifa Field
Discovered 1957, shallow offshore Saudi Arabia, about 900,000 barrels per day....
Zakum Field
Discovered 1963, offshore Abu Dhabi, several hundred thousand barrels per day....
Fateh Field
Discovered 1966, offshore Dubai, the field that built the emirate....
South Pars North Dome
Discovered 1971, offshore Iran and Qatar, the largest gas field in the world....
Wilmington Field
Discovered 1932, beneath Long Beach harbor, California, over 2.5 billion barrels in place....
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....
Cantarell Field
Discovered 1976, Campeche Sound, peak 2.2 million barrels per day in 2004....
Ku-Maloob-Zaap
Discovered 1979, Campeche Sound, about 800,000 barrels per day at peak....
Lula Field
Discovered 2006, Santos Basin pre-salt, several hundred thousand barrels per day....
Buzios Field
Discovered 2010, Santos Basin pre-salt, the largest Brazilian pre-salt producer....
Marlim Field
Discovered 1985, Campos Basin, deepwater heavy oil pioneer....
Forties Field
Discovered 1970, UK sector, the first giant UK oil field....
Brent Field
Discovered 1971, UK sector, the field that named the world crude benchmark....
Piper Field
Discovered 1973, UK sector, site of the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster....
Statfjord Field
Discovered 1974, straddling UK and Norwegian sectors, the largest UK North Sea oil field....
Ekofisk Field
Discovered 1969, Norwegian sector, the first Norwegian oil giant....
Troll Field
Discovered 1979, Norwegian sector, giant gas field with a thin oil zone....
Oseberg Field
Discovered 1979, Norwegian sector, a flagship Equinor development....
Gullfaks Field
Discovered 1978, Norwegian sector, a Tampen Spur workhorse....
Frigg Field
Discovered 1971, UK and Norwegian sectors, a gas field that supplied Britain....
Prirazlomnoye Field
Discovered 1989, Pechora Sea, first Arctic offshore oil....
Kashagan Field
Discovered 2000, Caspian Sea, 13 billion barrels in place....
Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli
Discovered 1985, Caspian Sea, the engine of the modern Azerbaijani oil revival....
Shah Deniz
Discovered 1999, Caspian Sea, the gas field behind the Southern Gas Corridor....
Bonga
Discovered 1995, deepwater Nigeria, about 200,000 barrels per day....
Girassol
Discovered 1996, deepwater Angola, Block 17 flagship....
Jubilee Field
Discovered 2007, deepwater Ghana, the field that made Ghana a producer....
Zohr Field
Discovered 2015, Egyptian Mediterranean, the largest gas find in the Mediterranean....
Penglai 19-3
Discovered 1999, Bohai Bay, China, the largest Chinese offshore oil field....
Tapis Field
Discovered 1969, offshore Peninsular Malaysia, a benchmark light sweet crude....
Bombay High
Discovered 1974, Arabian Sea off Mumbai, the backbone of Indian oil....
KG-D6
Discovered 2002, Bay of Bengal deepwater, gas that reshaped Indian supply....
North West Shelf
Discovered 1971, offshore Western Australia, the foundation of Australian LNG....
Gorgon Field
Discovered 1994, offshore Western Australia, a giant gas project with CO2 injection....
Kingfish Field
Discovered 1967, Bass Strait, the largest Australian oil field by output....
Johan Sverdrup Field
Discovered 2010, offshore Norway, a plateau of about 755,000 barrels per day....
Hibernia Field
Discovered 1979, offshore Newfoundland, first oil in 1997....
Neft Daslari
First oil 1949, offshore Azerbaijan, an industrial town built on steel trestles....
Mero Field
Discovered 2010, offshore Brazil, a pre-salt giant in the Libra block....
Liza Field
Discovered 2015, offshore Guyana, first oil in 2019....
Piltun-Astokhskoye Field
Discovered 1986, offshore Sakhalin, the oil core of the Sakhalin-2 project....
Buzzard Field
Discovered 2001, offshore UK, first oil in 2007....