Adar oil field

The Adar oil field, also known as Adar-Yar, with estimated oil in place of about 276 million barrels, is located in the Melut basin in the northern Upper Nile.

The field was discovered by US oil company Chevron in 1981 and was inaugurated by Sudan President Omar al-Bashir in March 1997, at which point it was producing about 5,000 barrels per day (bpd). The first Sudanese crude to be exported came from Adar. The exports were minimal - one cargo every fortnight, or up to 2,500 bpd; by May 1998, production had increased to 10,000 b/d, which remained a tiny fraction of the field’s potential.

Chevron left Sudan in 1990 and as of 2011 Adar field was operated by the consortium Petrodar.

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