as being too ambitious, especially as the Burgan field, which
generates over 80 per cent of the country's oil, is now suffering
from a deep water cut problem.
Burgan field has an oil production capacity of about 1.7 million
barrels of oil a day out of the OPEC producer's current estimated
output capacity of 3.
In 1991, retreating Iraqi soldiers set Burgan Field on fire. Smoke
plumes from the Greater Burgan oil field extended 50 kilometers in
width on any given day, and 2.5 km thick.
he said, However, the Burgan field, Kuwait's biggest, is mature and
making water, so the Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) would prefer not to increase
production from it, he added.
This next image is a further enlargement of the Burgan field area in
which the color patterns denote discernible changes between 1987 and
1993, brought out by a change detection merge of images from those two
* Most of Kuwait's oil comes from the Burgan FieldMost of Kuwait's
oil comes from the Burgan Field
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main Burgan Field and adjacent areas in the southeast. Royal Dutch
Shell is also reported to be discussing a technical service agreement
to treat and process non-associated gas reserves.
In South East Kuwait, which holds the vast Burgan field, production is
to increase by 200,000 b/d to a total of 1.7 million bbl/d; KOC hopes
to maintain capacity in West Kuwait at 500,000 b/d.
Burgan Field: Kuwait's Biggest Oil Field Starts to Run Out of Oil - AME Info FZ LLC (United Arab Emirates) 12nov2005
The peak output of the Burgan oil field will now be around 1.
6 million bbl/d Greater Burgan field, Kuwait's other main
producing fields include the northern fields of Raudhatain (380,000
bbl/d of production capacity) and Sabriya (95,000 bbl/d of production
capacity); the
The Greater Burgan Field consists of three sub fields (Ahmadi, Burgan
and Magwa). Drilling commenced in this field in 1938 and it went on
stream in 1946.
burning of the Burgan field was ecological vandalism of the worst
order, did billions of dollars of economic damage, and may have
contributed to hastening the exhaustion of that field.
"Oil reserves in the Burgan field are much greater than what had been
circulated," state-run news agency KUNA reported, citing Sheikh Ahmad
al-Fahad al-Sabah, the Gulf Arab state's deputy prime minister for