Official: Iran Ranks 1st in Oil, Gas Discovery in World
2020-October-4
TEHRAN (FNA)- Director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) for Exploration Seyed Saleh Hendi said that the country ranked first among the world's largest oil companies in terms of total oil and gas discovery in 2019.
“According to the statistical figures released by the Wood Mackenzie International Institute, Iran stands first in oil and gas discovery in the world (in 2019)," Hendi told reporters on Saturday.
“Out of 20 discoveries in the world, the first and the third largest ones belong to the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he added.
Hendi explained that Eram gas field with a recoverable reserve of 2.7 billion barrels, equal to 13% of all the world discoveries in 2019, ranks first in the world and Namavaran oil field with a recoverable reserve of 2.2 billion oil barrels stands third.
According to a report by the prestigious Wood Mackenzie International Institute, published under the title "Global Discovery 2019 - Continuation of Profitability", the National Iranian Oil Company in 2019 in terms of total oil and gas exploration, discovered 4.973 billion barrels or equivalent extractable hydrocarbon reserves which put the company first among the world's major oil companies, including national and international oil companies.
This figure is equivalent to 31 percent of the total volume of hydrocarbons discovered in the world in 2019.
In this report, Eram field was discovered with a recoverable reserve of 2.7 billion barrels (equivalent to 20 percent of the total gas discovered in the world) and Namavaran field with a recoverable reserve of 2.3 billion barrels (equivalent to 10.5 percent of the total oil discovered in the world) took the first and third places of discoveries made in the world during 2019, respectively.
In another part of the report, it is stated that the amount of global discoveries in 2019 was equivalent to 21.2 billion barrels that could be produced, which is about twice as much as that in 2018 and the highest amount since 2015.
Also in 2019, around 600 exploration wells were drilled and completed worldwide, which resulted in the discovery of about 220 hydrocarbon fields.
During this period, two exploratory and appraisal wells were drilled and completed in Iran.
According to the report, many of the major explorations made in 2019 were gas, accounting for two-thirds of the hydrocarbon discovery in 2019, or 10.8 billion barrels, with 82 TCF of the explorations concerned natural gas.
Nine major discoveries took place in 2019 in Iran, Russia, Mauritania, Cyprus, Suriname, South Africa and Malaysia, and the first 20 major discoveries account for 75 percent of the volume of hydrocarbons discovered in the world.
13 of the 20 largest discoveries in the world in 2019 also have less than 500 million barrels of recoverable reserves.
Source: https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/13990629000814/Official-Iran-Ranks-s-in-Oil-Gas-Discvery-in-Wrld