The onshore Burgan Field in the desert of southeastern Kuwait is one of the world's largest and richest oil fields. It was discovered in 1938. It is so rich that it is one of the world's easiest production sites, with oil practically flowing to the surface on its own. Burgan has helped Kuwait become one of the largest oil exporters on the planet. Burgan has been pumping oil for almost 60 years and accounts for more than half of Kuwait's proven oil reserves. Drilling rig in a small oil field Near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 An oil field is an area with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum (oil) from below ground. ...
The total oil production capacity of Burgan Field has been somewhat controversial. The US Energy Information Administration estimates that the Greater Burgan field, including the Burgan, Magwa, and Ahmadi structures has a production capacity of around 1.6 million barrels per day. [1] On the other hand, Simmons & Co. estimates Burgan field produces 2.2 mbd. (Matthew R. Simmons "The World's Giant Oil Fields," Research Report of Simmons & Co. International.)
In November, 2005, Farouk Al Zanki, Chairman of Kuwait Oil, reported that the Burgan oil field production levels are running down. Burgan will now produce 1.7 mbpd rather than 2 mbpd for the rest of its 30-40 years. He said that engineers had tried to maintain 1.9 million barrels per day but that 1.7 million is the optimum rate.
Because an oil field may be remote from civilization, establishing a field is often an extremely complicated exercise in logistics.
Thus, the typical oil field resembles a small self-contained city in the midst of a landscape dotted with oil derricks[?] and/or the pump jacks known as "nodding donkeys" because of their bobbing arm.
The largest are the Ghawar Field[?] in Saudi Arabia and the BurganField[?] in Kuwait, with more than 60 billion barrels estimated in each.
In the Burgan oil field, Kuwait’s largest producer and the second largest field in the world, 515 oil wells were either set on fire or were damaged and allowed to gush.
The soot and oil mist eventually settled in the oil fields, urban and desert areas, and in the Arabian Gulf being driven by the predominantly northwest-southeast winds.
This study, which uses satellite imagery to monitor the spatial and temporal changes in the oil lakes in the affected oil fields, is part of a multidisciplinary study being conducted by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research to monitor the long-term effect from the oil lakes and oil-polluted soils.
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