Rumaila oil field
The Rumaila oil field is a super-giant oil field located in southern Iraq, approximately 50km to the south west of Basra City. Discovered in 1953 by the Basrah Petroleum Company, an associate company of the Iraq Petroleum Company, the field is estimated to contain 17 billion barrels, which accounts for 12% of Iraq's oil reserves, estimated at 143 billion barrels.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Oilfield
- Description: oil field
- Also known as: “Ar Rumaylah”, “Huqul Naft ar Rumaylah”, “Rumailah”, “Rumaylah”, and “Rumaylah Oilfield”
Rumaila oil field
- Categories: oil field and landform
- Location: Basra Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Rumaila oil field” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حقل الرميلة”
- Arabic: “حقول نفط الرميلة”
- Cebuano: “Ḩuqūl Nafţ ar Rumaylah”
- Chinese: “鲁迈拉油田”
- Czech: “Rumajlá”
- Dutch: “Rumaila”
- Esperanto: “Rumajla”
- French: “Rumaila”
- German: “Rumaila”
- Italian: “Rumaila”
- Italian: “Rumayla”
- Japanese: “ルマイラ油田”
- Kazakh: “Әр-Румайла”
- Korean: “루마일라 유전”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rumailafeltet”
- Persian: “میدان رمیله”
- Portuguese: “Campo de petróleo de Rumaila”
- Russian: “Румайла”
- Swedish: “Ḩuqūl Nafţ ar Rumaylah”
- Ukrainian: “Румайла”
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