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The World's Largest Oil Field is Dying
Written By Luke Burgess
Posted August 9, 2006
Believe it or not…One oil field accounts for 6.25% of the world’s daily global production — about 5 million barrels a day. And unfortunately for the world, few people know the lies, scandals, and realities surrounding Ghawar, the world’s largest oil field.
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Nearly 125 miles east of Riyadh, in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, exists the most expensive and exclusive real estate on the planet.
How pricy is land here?
All exaggerations aside…Priceless.
Yet this 1.3 million acre stretch of real estate contains no Hollywood-style, gazillion dollar mansions…There are no private beaches or hoity-toity, aristocratic shopping…There are no elite golf courses or exclusive vacation resorts.
No…There’s almost nothing at all.
Just a big, dead, empty desert.
Yet this virtually-uninhabited stretch of desert has made literal tycoons out of once nomadic tribesmen in just over 50 years.
How was that possible?
Actually, it was quite easy.
You see, lying deep beneath this scorching, desolate landscape sits the largest and most important oil field in the world: The Ghawar Oil Field.
Saudi Arabia has over 300 recognized oil reservoirs. But 90% of the country’s oil production comes from only five fields discovered between 1940 and 1965. They are:
Abqaiq Field (official reserve estimate: 12 billon barrels)
Safaniya-Khafji Field (official reserve estimate: 30 billon barrels)
Berri Field (official reserve estimate: 12 billon barrels)
Manifa Field (official reserve estimate: 11 billon barrels)
And the granddaddy of them all: Ghawar Field (official reserve estimate: 70 billon barrels)
Ghawar is so large that its production accounts for about 60% of all Saudi Arabian oil. So there’s no wonder why among the many prolific oil fields in the Middle East, the giant Ghawar field stands out as the region’s crown jewel.
The massive field was discovered in 1948. Production at Ghawar began two years later and reached a peak of 5.7 million barrels per day in 1981. This is the highest sustained oil production rate ever achieved by any single oil field in history.
“Ghawar is the greatest oil-bearing structure the world has ever known. Its superlative qualities cannot be overstated. It is unlikely that any new oilfield will ever rival the bounteous production Ghawar has delivered to Saudi Arabia and the international petroleum markets”
– Matthew Simmons, Twilight in the Desert
During the mid and late ‘80s, Ghawar’s production rate fell as it was restricted for market reasons. But by 1996, with the development of two other areas in the southern area of the field, production went back up above 5 million per day.
Since its discovery Ghawar has produced more than 55,000 million barrels of the black goopy stuff. And there’s still more oil to be found de