Country Report
Bahrain upstream summary
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Report summary
Bahrain is one of the Middle East's smallest oil and gas producers. Production comes from just one field - the onshore Bahrain Field (also known as Awali) - which was discovered and brought onstream in 1932. Bahrain also receives a 50% share of production from the Abu Sa'fah field shared with Saudi Arabia. Bahrain's combined output from these fields was around 450,000 boe/d in 2025, roughly split 50:50 between liquids and gas.Bapco Energies, the national oil company of Bahrain, ...
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Key facts
- Location maps
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Key companies
- Historical upstream participation
- Historical midstream participation
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Geology
- Introduction
- Regional tectonic framework
- Regional stratigraphy
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Major petroleum plays
- Khuff Formation
- Hanifa-Tuwaiq Mountain Formations
- Arab Formation
- Kharaib Formation
- Wasia Group
- Seals
- Source rocks and petroleum types
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Exploration
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Licensing
- Block 1
- Blocks 2, 3 and 4
- Khalij al Bahrain
- Pre-Unayzah unconventional gas
- Future activities
- Historical
- 2007 exploration tender
- Deep gas exploration
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Drilling
- Drilling activity
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Licensing
- Reserves and resources
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Production
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Oil/Liquids
- Oil
- LPG and condensate
- Gas
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Oil/Liquids
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Infrastructure
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Introduction
- AB-4 Pipeline
- Bahrain refinery
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Gas infrastructure
- Gas processing
- LNG FSRU
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Introduction
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Costs
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Capital costs
- Capital expenditure by location
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Operating costs
- Operating expenditure by location
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Capital costs
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Policy and regulation
- Regulatory body
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State oil company
- Bapco Energies
- Bapco Upstream
- State participation
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International boundaries
- Bahrain/Qatar
- Bahrain/Saudi Arabia
- Licensing
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Fiscal terms
- Current fiscal terms
- PSC production sharing
- PSC cost recovery
- PSC profit sharing
- Corporate income tax (petroleum income tax)
- Fiscal treatment of decommissioning costs
- Product pricing
- Sample Cash Flow
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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Liquids productionSales gas productionKey facts: Table 1
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Location maps: Image 1Reserves and resources: Table 1Reserves and resources: Table 2Reserves and contingent resources at 01/01/2026Liquids and Gas Production 2025Map of basinsStratigraphic columnBahrain licensed blocks mapProduction: Table 3
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