Rubiales oil field

Rubiales Oil Field
Rubiales oil field is located in Meta Department
Rubiales oil field
Location of Rubiales Oil Field
Rubiales oil field is located in Colombia
Rubiales oil field
Rubiales oil field (Colombia)
CountryColombia
RegionMeta Department
LocationPuerto Gaitán
Offshore/onshoreOnshore
Coordinates3°46′02.2″N 71°23′16.3″W / 3.767278°N 71.387861°W / 3.767278; -71.387861
OperatorEcopetrol (since July 2016)
Pacific Rubiales Energy (until July 1, 2016)
Field history
Discovery1981
Start of development1988
Start of production1992
Production
Current production of oil132,000 barrels per day (~7.48×10^6 t/a)
Estimated oil in place588 million tonnes
(~ 696×10^6 m3 or 4380 million bbl)
Producing formationsC7

The Rubiales Oil Field is an oil field located in the Llanos Basin, Meta Department, Colombia. It was discovered in 1981 and was first developed, operated and owned by Pacific Rubiales Energy. The field produces heavy oil (11.3-14.5° API gravity) from the C7 unit of the Carbonera Formation.[1] The porosity of the reservoir formation is between 28 and 33% and the permeability ranges from 3 to 5 Darcies.[2] In 2008, 22.817.163 barrels were produced from the field.[3] The total proven reserves of the Rubiales oil field are 4.38 billion barrels (588×106tonnes), and production in 2017 is 132,000 barrels per day (21,000 m3/d).[4]

  1. ^ ANH, 2006, p.7
  2. ^ Gómez et al., 2010, p.5
  3. ^ García González et al., 2009, p.160
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference TiempoOilfields was invoked but never defined (see the help page).