Gullfaks oil field

Gullfaks
Gullfaks A being completed in Stord
Gullfaks oil field is located in North Sea
Gullfaks oil field
Location of Gullfaks
CountryNorway
LocationNorth Sea
Block34/10
Offshore/onshoreoffshore
Coordinates61°12′54″N 2°16′48″E / 61.215°N 2.280°E / 61.215; 2.280
OperatorEquinor
PartnersPetoro
Field history
Discovery1978
Start of production1986
Peak of production180,000 barrels per day (29,000 m3/d)
Peak year2001
Production
Current production of oil39,000 barrels per day (~1.9×10^6 t/a)
Year of current production of oil2013 [1]
Estimated oil in place73 million barrels (~1.0×10^7 t)
Petroleum production of Norway by year and oil field

Gullfaks is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by Equinor. It was discovered in 1978, in block 34/10, at a water depth of 130-230 meters.[1] The initial recoverable reserve is 2.1 billion barrels (330×10^6 m3), and the remaining recoverable reserve in 2004 is 234 million barrels (37.2×10^6 m3). This oil field reached peak production in 2001 at 180,000 barrels per day (29,000 m3/d). It has satellite fields Gullfaks South, Rimfaks, Skinfaks and Gullveig.[2]

  1. ^ Petterson, O., Storli, A., Ljosland, E., Nygaard, O., Massie, I., and Carlsen, H., The Gullfaks Field, 1992, in Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade, 1978-1988, AAPG Memoir 54, Halbouty, M.T., editor, Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, ISBN 0891813330, pp. 429-446
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference statoil was invoked but never defined (see the help page).