Oil megaprojects/2006

This page summarizes projects that brought more than 20,000 barrels/day of new liquid fuel capacity to market with the first production of fuel beginning in 2006. This is part of the Wikipedia summary of Oil Megaprojects -- see that page for further details -- and is maintained by the Oil Megaprojects task force. 2006 saw 30 projects come on stream with an aggregate capacity of 4.092 million barrels/day when full production was reached (which may not have been in 2006).

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Detailed Project Table for 2006

Terminology
* Year Startup: year of first oil. put specific date if available.
* Operator: company undertaking the project.
* Area: onshore (LAND), offshore (OFF), offshore deep water (ODW), tar sands (TAR).
* Type: liquid category (i.e. Natural Gas Liquids, Natural gas condensate, Crude oil)
* Grade: oil quality (light, medium, heavy, sour) or API gravity
* 2P resvs: 2P (proven + probable) oil reserves in giga barrels (Gb).
* GOR: The ratio of produced gas to produced oil, commonly abbreviated GOR [Cite web | url=http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=gas%2Foil%20ratio | title=Oilfield Glossary] .
* Peak year: year of the production plateau/peak.
* Peak: maximum production expected (thousand barrels/day).
* Discovery: year of discovery.
* Capital investment: expected capital cost; FID (Final Investment Decision) - If no FID, then normally no project development contracts can be awarded. For many projects, a FEED stage (Front End Engineering Design) precedes the FID.
* Notes: comments about the project (footnotes).
* Ref: list of sources.

Terminology

* Year Startup: year of first oil. put specific date if available.
* Operator: company undertaking the project.
* Area: onshore (LAND), offshore (OFF), offshore deep water (ODW), tar sands (TAR).
* Type: liquid category (i.e. Natural Gas Liquids, Natural gas condensate, Crude oil)
* Grade: oil quality (light, medium, heavy, sour) or API gravity
* 2P resvs: 2P (proven + probable) oil reserves in giga barrels (Gb).
* GOR: The ratio of produced gas to produced oil, commonly abbreviated GOR [Cite web | url=http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=gas%2Foil%20ratio | title=Oilfield Glossary] .
* Peak year: year of the production plateau/peak.
* Peak: maximum production expected (thousand barrels/day).
* Discovery: year of discovery.
* Capital investment: expected capital cost; FID (Final Investment Decision) - If no FID, then normally no project development contracts can be awarded. For many projects, a FEED stage (Front End Engineering Design) precedes the FID.
* Notes: comments about the project (footnotes).
* Ref: list of sources.

References