Oil Reserves in Saudi Arabia - Major Oil Fields

Major Oil Fields

Although Saudi Arabia has around 100 major oil and gas fields, over half of its oil reserves are contained in only eight giant oil fields, including the Ghawar Field, the biggest oil field in the world with an estimated 70 Gbbl of remaining reserves. 90% of Saudi Arabia's oil production comes from five fields and up to 60% of its production comes from the Ghawar field.

Read more about this topic:  Oil Reserves In Saudi Arabia

Famous quotes containing the words major, oil and/or fields:

    “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

    “Can he who has discovered only some of the values of whalebone and whale oil be said to have discovered the true use of the whale?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Love is the reason you were born.”
    —Dorothy Fields (1904–1974)