Guafita Oil Field (Venezuela)

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Guafita Oil Field is an operating oil field in Venezuela.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Guafita Oil Field

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Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID1 year	Production start year	Production type
Guafita	Operating	PDVSA	–	1984	–	–	–

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Guafita Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	original oil in place	138.88	million bbl	2013	​
oil	oil in place	1064	million bbl	2021	​
oil	EUR	590	million bbl	2021	​
oil	remaining recoverable reserves	130	million bbl	2021	​

Table 3: Production from Guafita Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year
million bbl = million barrels of oil

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
cumulative production	oil	460	million bbl	2021
production	oil	21.17	million bbl/y	2003
production	oil	4.87	million bbl/y	2014

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Guafita Oil Field

Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Apure-Barinas	Onshore, Venezuela	Onshore	7.0379, -71.0357 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the field:

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