Oil field
An oil field is a region with many oil wells extracting petroleum (oil) from below ground. Because the oil reservoirs usually extend over a large area, possibly several hundred kilometres across, the only way to completely exploit the field is with many wells in different parts of the field. Other than wells, there may be pipelines to transport the oil elsewhere, and support buildings for the workers and for repairs.
Oil Field Media
A structure map, looking downward, generated by contour map software for an 8,500-ft-deep gas and oil reservoir in the Erath field, Erath, Louisiana. The left-to-right gap near the top indicates a fault line between the blue and green contour lines and the purple, red, and yellow lines.
Eagle Ford Shale flares visible from space (green and infrared wavelengths), in the arc between "1" and "2", amid cities in southeast Texas in 2012.
Location of the gas fields of Iran
The drillship Discoverer Enterprise is shown in the background, at work during exploratory phase of a new offshore field. The Offshore Support Vessel Toisa Perseus is shown in the foreground, illustrating part of the complex logistics of offshore oil and gas exploration and production.
Schematic unconventional reservoir classification expressed as fluid energy vs flow potential based on initials without stimulation
Structural trap within an Anticline
Structural trap along a fault plane
Structural-stratigraphic trap in a tilted block draped by mudstones
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Other websites
- Interactive Oil Field Map Archived 2011-01-02 at the Wayback Machine Mississippi Oil Journal
- Interactive Oil and Gas Maps Kansas Geological Survey
