Oil megaprojects (2012)

This page summarizes projects that propose to bring more than 20000 oilbbl/d of new liquid fuel capacity to market, with the first production of fuel beginning in 2012. This is part of the Wikipedia summary of oil megaprojects.

Detailed list of projects for 2012
Terminology
 * Year startup: year of first oil; 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: ratio of produced gas to produced oil, commonly abbreviated GOR
 * 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.: sources