{
  "id": "major-oil-fields-world",
  "name": "Major Oil Fields of the World",
  "title": "Major Oil Fields of the World",
  "description": "Significant oil fields worldwide with their location, year discovered, production start year, peak year, recoverable reserves, and current production status.",
  "category": "finance",
  "source": "https://github.com/sharmadhiraj/free-json-datasets",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/sharmadhiraj/free-json-datasets",
  "updated": "2026-04",
  "record_count": 143,
  "columns": [
    {
      "key": "oil_field",
      "label": "Oil Field",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "location",
      "label": "Location",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "year_discovered",
      "label": "Year Discovered",
      "type": "number"
    },
    {
      "key": "production_start_year",
      "label": "Production Start Year",
      "type": "number"
    },
    {
      "key": "peak_year",
      "label": "Peak Year",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels",
      "label": "Recoverable Reserves Billion Barrels",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "current_production_mbd",
      "label": "Current Production Mbd",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "status",
      "label": "Status",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "oil_field": "Ghawar Field",
      "location": "Saudi Arabia",
      "year_discovered": "1948",
      "production_start_year": "1951",
      "peak_year": "2005, disputed",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "88-104",
      "current_production_mbd": "3.8 (2019)",
      "status": "Declining, unofficial estimates (from GlobalData) peg the production at 3.06 MBPD in 2023"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Burgan Field",
      "location": "Kuwait",
      "year_discovered": "1937",
      "production_start_year": "1948",
      "peak_year": "2005",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "66-72",
      "current_production_mbd": "1.7",
      "status": "Declining, rate of decline not publicly available"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Bohai Field",
      "location": "China",
      "year_discovered": "1960s (Pilot Output) 2002 (Full Commercial Production)",
      "production_start_year": "1968",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "0.73-1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.72 (2024)",
      "status": "Production is stable and gradually increasing, supported by continuous new developments"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Ahvaz Field",
      "location": "Iran",
      "year_discovered": "1953",
      "production_start_year": "1954",
      "peak_year": "1970s",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "25",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.75",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Upper Zakum oil field",
      "location": "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
      "year_discovered": "1963",
      "production_start_year": "1982 (1967)",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "21",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.75",
      "status": "Extension planned to 1 MMb/d"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Lower Zakum Field",
      "location": "United Arab Emirates",
      "year_discovered": "1963",
      "production_start_year": "1967",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "17.2",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.43",
      "status": "Expected to peak in 2028 at 0.45 MBPD"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Gachsaran Field",
      "location": "Iran",
      "year_discovered": "1927",
      "production_start_year": "1930",
      "peak_year": "1974",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "66",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.48",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Cantarell Field",
      "location": "Mexico",
      "year_discovered": "1976",
      "production_start_year": "1981",
      "peak_year": "2004",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "18–35",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.14",
      "status": "Declining,peaked in 2004 at 2.14 million barrels per day (340,000 m3/d)"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Ku-Maloob-Zaap",
      "location": "Mexico",
      "year_discovered": "1979",
      "production_start_year": "1981",
      "peak_year": "2015",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "4.9",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.59",
      "status": "Declining, production peaked at 853,000 bpd in 2018"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Bolivar Coastal Field",
      "location": "Venezuela",
      "year_discovered": "1917",
      "production_start_year": "1922",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "30–32",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.85",
      "status": "Production declined sharply in the 2010s and 2020s due to sanctions, under investment, and infrastructure degradation. Production stabilized by PDVSA and international partners"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Aghajari Field",
      "location": "Iran",
      "year_discovered": "1938",
      "production_start_year": "1940",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "28",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.18",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Tupi Field",
      "location": "Brazil, Santos Basin",
      "year_discovered": "2007",
      "production_start_year": "2009",
      "peak_year": "2021",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "5–8",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.79",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Roncador Field",
      "location": "Brazil, Campos Basin",
      "year_discovered": "1996",
      "production_start_year": "1999",
      "peak_year": "2006",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.7",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.10",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Ahdeb Oil Field",
      "location": "Iraq",
      "year_discovered": "1979",
      "production_start_year": "2011",
      "peak_year": "2015",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.07",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Safaniya Oil Field",
      "location": "Kuwait/Saudi Arabia",
      "year_discovered": "1951",
      "production_start_year": "1957",
      "peak_year": "1981",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "30",
      "current_production_mbd": "1.2",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Esfandiar Field",
      "location": "Iran",
      "year_discovered": "1969",
      "production_start_year": "2023",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "30",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.01",
      "status": "Increasing"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Rumaila Field",
      "location": "Iraq",
      "year_discovered": "1953",
      "production_start_year": "1954",
      "peak_year": "1979",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "17",
      "current_production_mbd": "1.4",
      "status": "Post peak, production stabilized with ongoing investments"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Tengiz Field",
      "location": "Kazakhstan",
      "year_discovered": "1979",
      "production_start_year": "1993",
      "peak_year": "2010",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "26–40",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.93",
      "status": "Peak production stage"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Kirkuk Field",
      "location": "Iraq",
      "year_discovered": "1927",
      "production_start_year": "1934",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "8.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.29",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Shaybah Field",
      "location": "Saudi Arabia",
      "year_discovered": "1998",
      "production_start_year": "1998",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "15",
      "current_production_mbd": "1.0",
      "status": "Peak production stage"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Majnoon Field",
      "location": "Iraq",
      "year_discovered": "1975",
      "production_start_year": "2013",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "11–20",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.50",
      "status": "Production is stable, active plans and projects to increase production"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Buzios Field",
      "location": "Brazil",
      "year_discovered": "2010",
      "production_start_year": "2018",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.90",
      "status": "Production expanding, with target of 1 M BPD"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Samotlor Field",
      "location": "Russia, West Siberia",
      "year_discovered": "1965",
      "production_start_year": "1969",
      "peak_year": "1980",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "14–16",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.33",
      "status": "Declining, 90 % of reserves recovered 5% decline per year (2008–2014)"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Shaikan Sheikh Adi Field",
      "location": "Iraqi Kurdistan",
      "year_discovered": "2009",
      "production_start_year": "2013",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "4–6",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.04",
      "status": "Production is stable with some fluctuation due to external incidents, but generally showing resilience and modest growth"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Romashkino Field",
      "location": "Russia, Volga-Ural",
      "year_discovered": "1948",
      "production_start_year": "1949",
      "peak_year": "1965",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "16–17",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.30 (2006)",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Mero Oil field",
      "location": "Brazil, Santos Basin",
      "year_discovered": "2010",
      "production_start_year": "2022",
      "peak_year": "2025",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3.3",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.77",
      "status": "Peak production stage"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Prudhoe Bay",
      "location": "United States, Alaska",
      "year_discovered": "1967–68",
      "production_start_year": "1977",
      "peak_year": "1988",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "13",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.32 (2023)",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Sarir Field",
      "location": "Libya",
      "year_discovered": "1961",
      "production_start_year": "1961",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "6.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.21",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Priobskoye field",
      "location": "Russia, West Siberia",
      "year_discovered": "1982",
      "production_start_year": "2000",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "13",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.50 (2019)",
      "status": "Post peak, gradual managed tapering supported by advanced recovery methods and active drilling"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Lyantorskoye field",
      "location": "Russia, West Siberia",
      "year_discovered": "1966",
      "production_start_year": "1979",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "13",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.17",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Abqaiq Field",
      "location": "Saudi Arabia",
      "year_discovered": "1940",
      "production_start_year": "1940s",
      "peak_year": "1973",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "12",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.43",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Chicontepec Field",
      "location": "Mexico",
      "year_discovered": "1926",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "6.5 (19 certified)",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.07",
      "status": "Production is stable and has remained relatively low due to complex reservoir characteristics and high development costs, despite Pemex's ambitious target to attain 1 million bpd"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Zuluf Field",
      "location": "Saudi Arabia",
      "year_discovered": "1965",
      "production_start_year": "1973",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "20",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.80",
      "status": "Increasing, planned capacity 1.4 million bpd"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Berri Field",
      "location": "Saudi Arabia",
      "year_discovered": "1964",
      "production_start_year": "1970",
      "peak_year": "1976",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "12",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.25",
      "status": "Post peak, production increased planned to 0.5 million bpd with additional investments"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "West Qurna Field",
      "location": "Iraq",
      "year_discovered": "1973",
      "production_start_year": "1976",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "33",
      "current_production_mbd": "1.0",
      "status": "Increasing, includes production from West Qurna 1 and West Qurna 2"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Manifa Field",
      "location": "Saudi Arabia",
      "year_discovered": "1957",
      "production_start_year": "1964",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "11",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.90",
      "status": "Peak production stage"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Khurais Field",
      "location": "Saudi Arabia",
      "year_discovered": "1957",
      "production_start_year": "2009",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "25",
      "current_production_mbd": "1.5",
      "status": "Peak production stage"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Fyodorovskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia, West Siberia",
      "year_discovered": "1971",
      "production_start_year": "1974",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "11",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.69",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "East Baghdad Field",
      "location": "Iraq",
      "year_discovered": "1976",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "8",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.05",
      "status": "Production is stable, active plans to increase production"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Foroozan-Marjan (Iran) Field",
      "location": "Saudi Arabia/Iran",
      "year_discovered": "1966",
      "production_start_year": "1975",
      "peak_year": "1987",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "10",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.51",
      "status": "Declining, the Iranian side (Foroozan) procuces 0.04 MBPD, the Saudi side (Marjan) was estimated to produce 0.47 MBPD in 2023 by GlobalData"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Marlim Field",
      "location": "Brazil, Campos Basin",
      "year_discovered": "1985",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "2002",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "10–14",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.01",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Awali",
      "location": "Bahrain",
      "year_discovered": "1932",
      "production_start_year": "1932",
      "peak_year": "1971",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.04",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Azadegan Field",
      "location": "Iran",
      "year_discovered": "1999",
      "production_start_year": "2003",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "5.2",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.19",
      "status": "Increasing"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Marun Field",
      "location": "Iran",
      "year_discovered": "1963",
      "production_start_year": "1966",
      "peak_year": "1976",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "16",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.52",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Minagish",
      "location": "Kuwait",
      "year_discovered": "1959",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Raudhatain",
      "location": "Kuwait",
      "year_discovered": "1955",
      "production_start_year": "1959",
      "peak_year": "1960s-1970s",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "11",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.35",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Sabriya",
      "location": "Kuwait",
      "year_discovered": "1955",
      "production_start_year": "2018",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3.8–4",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Yibal",
      "location": "Oman",
      "year_discovered": "1962",
      "production_start_year": "1968",
      "peak_year": "1997",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.02",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Mukhaizna Oil Field",
      "location": "Oman",
      "year_discovered": "1975",
      "production_start_year": "2000",
      "peak_year": "2016",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.08",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Dukhan Field",
      "location": "Qatar",
      "year_discovered": "1939",
      "production_start_year": "1988",
      "peak_year": "2007",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.2",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.34",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Halfaya Field",
      "location": "Iraq",
      "year_discovered": "1976",
      "production_start_year": "2012",
      "peak_year": "2025 (expected)",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "4.1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.37 (2019)",
      "status": "Plateau production target of 400,000 bpd"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Az Zubayr Field",
      "location": "Iraq",
      "year_discovered": "1949",
      "production_start_year": "1951",
      "peak_year": "2019",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "6",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.40 (2023)",
      "status": "Production enhancement project by an Eni-led consortium began in 2010 to expand production to 1.2 million bpd, production fluctuated in the range of 300,000 to 400,000 bpd in 2023 - 2024"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Nahr Umr Field",
      "location": "Iraq",
      "year_discovered": "1948",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "6",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.05",
      "status": "Production has fluctuated over its history, recent efforts ongoing to expand capacity. Agreement with Haliburton aims to increase capacity to 300,000 bpd"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Abu-Sa'fah field",
      "location": "Saudi Arabia",
      "year_discovered": "1963",
      "production_start_year": "1966",
      "peak_year": "2004",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "6.1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.30",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Hassi Messaoud",
      "location": "Algeria",
      "year_discovered": "1956",
      "production_start_year": "1958",
      "peak_year": "1977",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "6.4-8",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.35",
      "status": "Declining, peak production occurred in 1977 at about 717,000 bpd, though most references cite a plateau era of 500,000 bpd during the 1970s"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Bouri Field",
      "location": "Libya",
      "year_discovered": "1976",
      "production_start_year": "1988",
      "peak_year": "1995",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "4.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.06",
      "status": "Post peak, production stabilized with ongoing investments"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Kizomba Complex",
      "location": "Angola",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Dalia (oil field)",
      "location": "Angola",
      "year_discovered": "1997",
      "production_start_year": "2006",
      "peak_year": "2010",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.20",
      "status": "Post peak, production stabilized with ongoing investments"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Belayim",
      "location": "Angola",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": ">1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Zafiro",
      "location": "Angola",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Zelten oil field",
      "location": "Libya",
      "year_discovered": "1959",
      "production_start_year": "1961",
      "peak_year": "1979",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.002",
      "status": "Accumulated production reached 2.426 billion barrels by 2006; initial estimates in 1959 suggested 2.5 billion barrels of reserves"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Agbami Field",
      "location": "Nigeria",
      "year_discovered": "1998",
      "production_start_year": "2008",
      "peak_year": "2009",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "0.8–1.2",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.09 (2019)",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Bonga Field",
      "location": "Nigeria",
      "year_discovered": "1996",
      "production_start_year": "2005",
      "peak_year": "2006",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.4",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.13",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli",
      "location": "Azerbaijan",
      "year_discovered": "1985",
      "production_start_year": "1997",
      "peak_year": "2010",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "5.4",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.33",
      "status": "Post peak, production stabilized with ongoing investments"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Bahar oilfields",
      "location": "Azerbaijan, Bibiheybət",
      "year_discovered": "1846",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Karachaganak Field",
      "location": "Kazakhstan",
      "year_discovered": "1979",
      "production_start_year": "1984",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.4",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.26",
      "status": "Production reached around 100,000 bpd of oil and condensate before declining in the early 1990s, followed by redevelopment and expansions in the 2000s"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Kashagan Field",
      "location": "Kazakhstan",
      "year_discovered": "2000",
      "production_start_year": "2016",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "30",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.40",
      "status": "Increasing"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Darkhan Field",
      "location": "Kazakhstan",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "9.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Zhanazhol Field",
      "location": "Kazakhstan",
      "year_discovered": "1978",
      "production_start_year": "1987",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.02",
      "status": "Primarily a gas condensate field, the cumulative production of oil and condensate reached 652.65 million barrels by the end of 2020"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Uzen Field",
      "location": "Kazakhstan",
      "year_discovered": "1962",
      "production_start_year": "1965",
      "peak_year": "1982",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "12.6",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.10",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Kalamkas Field",
      "location": "Kazakhstan",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3.2",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Zhetybay Field",
      "location": "Kazakhstan",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Nursultan Field",
      "location": "Kazakhstan",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "4.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Jubilee oil field",
      "location": "Ghana",
      "year_discovered": "2007",
      "production_start_year": "2010",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.15",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Ekofisk oil field",
      "location": "Norway",
      "year_discovered": "1969",
      "production_start_year": "1971",
      "peak_year": "2006",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3.3",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.13",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Troll Vest",
      "location": "Norway",
      "year_discovered": "1979",
      "production_start_year": "1990",
      "peak_year": "2003",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.4",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.03",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Statfjord",
      "location": "Norway",
      "year_discovered": "1974",
      "production_start_year": "1979",
      "peak_year": "1987",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "5",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.01",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Gullfaks",
      "location": "Norway",
      "year_discovered": "1978",
      "production_start_year": "1986",
      "peak_year": "1994",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.02",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Oseberg",
      "location": "Norway",
      "year_discovered": "1979",
      "production_start_year": "1988",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.2",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.09",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Snorre",
      "location": "Norway",
      "year_discovered": "1979",
      "production_start_year": "1992",
      "peak_year": "2003",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.09",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Johan Sverdrup oil field",
      "location": "Norway",
      "year_discovered": "2010",
      "production_start_year": "2019",
      "peak_year": "2023",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.8",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.70",
      "status": "Declining from 2025"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Mamontovskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "8",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Russkoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Kamennoe Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.9",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Vankor Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "1983",
      "production_start_year": "2009",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3.8",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Vatyeganskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.4",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Tevlinsko-Russkinskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.3",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Sutorminskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.3",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Urengoy group",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Ust-Balykskoe Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": ">1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Tuymazinskoe Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Arlanskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": ">2",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "South-Hilchuy Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3.1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "North-Dolginskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.2",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Nizhne-Chutinskoe Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.7",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "South-Dolginskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.6",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Prirazlomnoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "1989",
      "production_start_year": "2011",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.4",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "West-Matveevskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Sakhalin Islands",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "14",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Odoptu",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Arukutun-Dagi",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Piltun-Astokhskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "1986",
      "production_start_year": "1999",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Ayash Field East-Odoptu Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "4.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Verhne-Chonskoye Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.3",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Talakan Field",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.3",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "North-Caucasus Basin",
      "location": "Russia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.7",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Vaca Muerta",
      "location": "Argentina, Patagonia",
      "year_discovered": "2010",
      "production_start_year": "2010",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "16",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.58",
      "status": "Increasing, expected to peak at 1.3 MBPD in early 2030s"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Clair oilfield",
      "location": "United Kingdom",
      "year_discovered": "1977",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Forties oilfield",
      "location": "United Kingdom",
      "year_discovered": "1970",
      "production_start_year": "1975",
      "peak_year": "1979",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "5",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.01",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Jupiter field",
      "location": "Brazil",
      "year_discovered": "2008",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.6",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": "Production expected to start in 2028"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Cupiagua/Cusiana",
      "location": "Colombia",
      "year_discovered": "",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Boscán Field, Venezuela",
      "location": "Venezuela",
      "year_discovered": "1946",
      "production_start_year": "1947",
      "peak_year": "1990s",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.6",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.05-0.1",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Mumbai High Field",
      "location": "India, Arabian Sea",
      "year_discovered": "1965",
      "production_start_year": "1974",
      "peak_year": "1989",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2.4",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.13 (2024)",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Pembina",
      "location": "Canada",
      "year_discovered": "1953",
      "production_start_year": "1953",
      "peak_year": "Late1950s",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.81",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": "Declining, production peaked at 0.1 M BPD in 1950s, field is still producing at much smaller quanrity"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Swan Hills",
      "location": "Canada",
      "year_discovered": "1957",
      "production_start_year": "Late 1950s",
      "peak_year": "1960s-1970s",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.01",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Rainbow Lake",
      "location": "Canada",
      "year_discovered": "1956",
      "production_start_year": "1950s",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.002",
      "status": "Declining, tail end of production"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Hibernia",
      "location": "Canada",
      "year_discovered": "1979",
      "production_start_year": "1997",
      "peak_year": "2004",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.07",
      "status": "Declining, 85% of reserves recovered"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Terra Nova Field",
      "location": "Canada",
      "year_discovered": "1984",
      "production_start_year": "2002",
      "peak_year": "Early 2000s (shortly after start)",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.0",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.18",
      "status": "Post peak, production stabilized investments"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Kelly-Snyder",
      "location": "United States, Texas",
      "year_discovered": "1948",
      "production_start_year": "1948",
      "peak_year": "1951",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.02",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Bakken Formation",
      "location": "United States, North Dakota",
      "year_discovered": "1951",
      "production_start_year": "2005",
      "peak_year": "2019",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "7.3",
      "current_production_mbd": "1.3",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Permian Formation",
      "location": "United States, Texas",
      "year_discovered": "1921",
      "production_start_year": "2005",
      "peak_year": "2006",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "95.6",
      "current_production_mbd": "6.6",
      "status": "Increasing, rate of increase slowing down, expected to peak in 2026"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Eagle Ford Formation",
      "location": "United States, Texas",
      "year_discovered": "2008",
      "production_start_year": "2008",
      "peak_year": "2015",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3.8",
      "current_production_mbd": "1.0",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Yates Oil Field",
      "location": "United States, Texas",
      "year_discovered": "1926",
      "production_start_year": "1926",
      "peak_year": "1929",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3.0 (2.0 billion recovered; 1.0 reserve remaining)",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.01",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Kuparuk oil field",
      "location": "United States, Alaska",
      "year_discovered": "1969",
      "production_start_year": "1981",
      "peak_year": "1992",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1-1.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.06",
      "status": "Post peak, production stabilized using new investments"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Alpine, Alaska",
      "location": "United States, Alaska",
      "year_discovered": "1994",
      "production_start_year": "2000",
      "peak_year": "2005",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "0.4–1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.01",
      "status": "Post peak, production is currently stable and showing a modest increasing trend due to active development of satellite fields and ongoing drilling"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "East Texas Oil Field",
      "location": "United States, Texas",
      "year_discovered": "1930",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "6",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Spraberry Trend",
      "location": "United States, Texas",
      "year_discovered": "1943",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "10",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Wilmington Oil Field",
      "location": "United States, California",
      "year_discovered": "1932",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "South Belridge Oil Field",
      "location": "United States, California",
      "year_discovered": "1911",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Coalinga Oil Field",
      "location": "United States, California",
      "year_discovered": "1887",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Elk Hills",
      "location": "United States, California",
      "year_discovered": "1911",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.5",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Kern River",
      "location": "United States, California",
      "year_discovered": "1899",
      "production_start_year": "1899",
      "peak_year": "1904",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "2",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.002",
      "status": "Declining"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Midway-Sunset Field",
      "location": "United States, California",
      "year_discovered": "1894",
      "production_start_year": "",
      "peak_year": "",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "3.4",
      "current_production_mbd": "",
      "status": ""
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Thunder Horse Oil Field",
      "location": "United States, Gulf of Mexico",
      "year_discovered": "1999",
      "production_start_year": "2007",
      "peak_year": "2009",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.20",
      "status": "Post peak, production stabilized with ongoing investments"
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Kingfish",
      "location": "Australia",
      "year_discovered": "1967",
      "production_start_year": "1971",
      "peak_year": "1980s",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1.2",
      "current_production_mbd": "0.01",
      "status": "Declining, the field has produced over one billion barrels of oil in total since production started."
    },
    {
      "oil_field": "Halibut",
      "location": "Australia",
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      "location": "China",
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      "oil_field": "Wushi Oil Field",
      "location": "China",
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      "oil_field": "Tarim Oil Fields",
      "location": "China",
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      "production_start_year": "1984",
      "peak_year": "2024",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "7.3",
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      "oil_field": "Zafiro Field",
      "location": "Equatorial Guinea",
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      "peak_year": "2004",
      "recoverable_reserves_billion_barrels": "1",
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