Patos-Marinza Oil Field

Patos Marinza
Country Albania
Region Fier County
Location Patos
Block Patos-Marinza
Offshore/onshore Onshore
Coordinates Coordinates: 40°44′N 19°39′E / 40.733°N 19.650°E / 40.733; 19.650
Operator Bankers Petroleum, Albpetrol
Field history
Discovery 1928
Start of production 2004 [1]
Production
Current production of oil medium-heavy oil t/a
(12.556 bbl/d or 1.9962 m3/d)
Estimated oil in place 1.500 million barrels (~2.046×10^5 t)
Producing formations sandstone

Patos Marinza is an Albanian oil field that was discovered in 1928.[2] It is the biggest on-shore oil field in Europe, and with its 11,854 barrels (1,884.6 m3) every day the biggest oil producing field in Albania.[3] The Patos Marinza oil field is located 10 kilometres (6 mi) east of the city of Fier in south central Albania.[4] Its proven reserves are about 2 billion barrels (320×10^6 m3).[5] Patos Marinzas has only heavy oil and is in production since the 1930s.[2]

Statistics

  • Contingent resource for 2010 is 1.2 billion barrels (190,000,000 m3), compared to 838 million barrels (133,200,000 m3) in 2009[6]
  • Prospective resource for 2010 is 568 million barrels (90,300,000 m3), compared to 384 million barrels (61,100,000 m3) in 2009[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bankers Petroleum Ltd". bankerspetroleum.com.
  2. 1 2 "Cold Heavy Oil Production at Patos-Marinza, Albania". Onepetro.org. 2005-11-03. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
  3. ↑ "UPDATE 1-Bankers Petroleum's key Albanian oilfield output jumps in Q1". Reuters. 2011-04-07.
  4. ↑ "CHOPS: Cold heavy Oil Production with sand in the Patos-Marinza Oilfield". inist.fr.
  5. ↑ WNJ Editor (2009-11-03). "World News Journal: Europe's largest onshore oilfield is in Albania". Africannewsanalysis.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
  6. 1 2 "BANKERS PETROLEUM ANNOUNCES 2010 RESERVES REPORT". istockanalyst.com. Archived from the original on 2012-04-04.
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