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.
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- …lies at an elevation of 57 metres (187 feet)
- Also known as“Ar Rumaylah”“Huqul Naft ar Rumaylah”“Rumailah”“Rumaylah”“Rumaylah Oilfield”
Rumaila oil field
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Latitude
30.223° or 30° 13′ 23″ north
Longitude
47.38625° or 47° 23′ 11″ east
Open location code
8H2969FP+5F
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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”
- Malay: “Medan minyak Rumaila”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rumailafeltet”
- Persian: “میدان رمیله”
- Portuguese: “Campo de petróleo de Rumaila”
- Russian: “Румайла”
- Spanish: “Yacimiento petrolífero de Rumaila”
- Swedish: “Ḩuqūl Nafţ ar Rumaylah”
- Ukrainian: “Румайла”
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