The Azadegan oil field is an Iranian oil field.
It is one of the NIOC Recent Discoveries and one of the biggest oil fields that has been discovered in the world in the past thirty years. The field is located 80 km (50 miles) west of Ahvaz close to the Iraqi border.
The field holds 33.2 billion barrels of oil in place and 5.2 billion barrels of recoverable reserves.[1]
The first exploration well was drilled in the field in 1976, but its discovery was finalized after drilling the second well in 1999.
The field has an approximate area of 900 sq. km (about 350 sq mls) .
Sarvak, Kazhdomi, Godvan, and Fahilan are productive layers of the field.
Crude oil produced by the Fahilan layer is light while the other layers yield heavy crude.[2]
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