Bolivar Coastal Field

Bolivar Coastal Field

Infobox Oil field
name = Bolivar Coastal
region = South America
country = Venezuela
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offonshore = Onshore
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discovery = 1917
startofproduction = 1922
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Bolivar Coastal Field is the largest oil field in South America with its 6,000-7,000wells and forest of related derricks, stretches thirty-five miles along the north-east coast of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. [cite web
url=http://aapgbull.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/67/2/242
title=Geology and geochemistry of crude oils, Bolivar coastal fields, Venezuela
journal=AAPG Bulletin
date=February 1983
volume=67
issue=2
pages=pp. 242-270
language=English
author=Harry Bockmeulen, Colin Barker, and Parke A. Dickey]

Discovered in 1917, the Bolivar Coastal fields produce from wells on platforms in the shallow lake. The field is thought to have a total of approximately 30-32 billion barrels of oil.cite web |url=http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3567 |title=The List: Taking Oil Fields Offline |date=2006-08 |language=English] The field produces between convert|2.6|Moilbbl/d|m3/d and convert|3|Moilbbl/d|m3/d. Portions of the oil field have already been fully depleted.

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*List of oil fields

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