Rumaila Oil Field

Summary Information

• Operator: BP / Petrochina
• Country: Iraq
• Location: Southern Iraq
• Production start: 1972
• Partners: BP (38 percent), CNPC (37 percent) and SOMO ( 25 percent)
• Type: Oil & Gas
• Estimated Reserves: 17 billion Barrels
• Production Volume: 1.45 million barrels per day (bpd)

+++ Description

• The Rumaila field is one of the world’s largest oilfields, and the largest in Iraq
• BP and CNPC were the sole winners in Iraq’s first post-war licensing round with a bid which envisaged raising production to 2.85 million barrels a day, in return for a $2 per barrel fee for the incremental production.
• The Basra Gas Company is constructing natural gas processing plants to reduce flaring

+++ Contractors

• Drilling Rigs

* **Schlumberger / Iraqi Drilling Company** contracts for three rigs,
* **Daqing Drilling** contracts for three rigs,
* **Weatherford** contract for one rig. 

• **Cameron:** Supply of the associated trees and wellheads
• **Centrilift, Al-Khorayef Petroleum:** Supply and installation of electrical submersible pumps (ESPs)
• **GE:** Supply of an integrated package of pumps, gas engines and additional equipment
• **Petrofac / CPECC:** The inspection, maintenance and repair of degassing stations, rotating machinery and cluster pumping station
• **Technip / HQC:** Front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for Ar Ratawi Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) train1

+++ History

• 1953 - Rumaila Oil Field discovered
• 1972 - First oil produced
• 2009 - Rumalia was the only field successfully transferred in the First Iraqi Petroleum Licensing Round
• 2009 - Technical Service Agreement was signed by BP & Petrochina
• 2011 - GE signed contract to provide water injection technology
• 2012 - Petrofac JV wins inspection, maintenance and repair contract
• 2014 - FEED awarded for NGL plant
• 2016 - The field reached cumulative production of 3 Billion barrels

+++ Geology

+++ Links

1. First Iraqi Petroleum Licensing Round
2. CNPC, Iraq
3. Rumaila oilfield service contract signed in Iraq
4. First Major Contracts Awarded for Rumaila Rehabilitation
5. Rumaila Exceeds 10% Improved Production Target
6. October is Busiest Month Yet for Rumaila Operations
7. GE’s Integrated Technology Offering Selected for Produced Water Re-Injection in Iraqi Oil Field
8. Petrofac JV wins US$229 million contract in Iraq
9. Technip awarded FEED contract in Basra, Iraq
10. Rumaila oilfield achieves 3 billion barrel production landmark