Middle East
25 oil fields
Ghawar Field
Discovered 1948, onshore Saudi Arabia, over 5 million barrels per day at its 1980s peak....
Safaniya Field
Discovered 1951, offshore Saudi Arabia, over 1 million barrels per day of heavy and medium crude....
Khurais Field
Discovered 1956, onshore Saudi Arabia, 1.2 million barrels per day capacity since 2009....
Shaybah Field
Discovered 1968, onshore Saudi Arabia, 1 million barrels per day from the Empty Quarter....
Abqaiq Field
Discovered 1940, onshore Saudi Arabia, a supergiant that peaked above 1 million barrels per day....
Berri Field
Discovered 1964, coastal Saudi Arabia, several hundred thousand barrels per day....
Manifa Field
Discovered 1957, shallow offshore Saudi Arabia, about 900,000 barrels per day....
Greater Burgan Field
Discovered 1938, onshore Kuwait, capacity around 1.7 million barrels per day....
Rumaila Field
Discovered 1953, onshore Iraq, about 1.4 million barrels per day....
West Qurna Field
Discovered 1973, onshore Iraq, development target above 2 million barrels per day....
Majnoon Field
Discovered 1975, onshore Iraq, once among the fastest large developments in the world....
Kirkuk Field
Discovered 1927, onshore Iraq, the field that opened Middle East oil....
Zakum Field
Discovered 1963, offshore Abu Dhabi, several hundred thousand barrels per day....
Marun Field
Discovered 1963, onshore Iran, once about 500,000 barrels per day....
Ahvaz Field
Discovered 1958, onshore Iran, one of the largest fields by remaining reserves....
Gachsaran Field
Discovered 1928, onshore Iran, heavy crude pillar of national output....
Aghajari Field
Discovered 1938, onshore Iran, revived with the biggest gas injection project in Iran....
Azadegan Field
Discovered 1999, onshore Iran, a supergiant stalled by politics....
Yibal Field
Discovered 1962, onshore Oman, the largest Omani field....
Fateh Field
Discovered 1966, offshore Dubai, the field that built the emirate....
South Pars North Dome
Discovered 1971, offshore Iran and Qatar, the largest gas field in the world....
Masjed Soleyman Field
Discovered 1908, onshore Iran, the first commercial oil strike in the Middle East....
Dammam Field
Discovered 1938, onshore Saudi Arabia, the first commercial oil in the kingdom....
Dukhan Field
Discovered around 1940, onshore Qatar, the main onshore field of the country....
Zubair Field
Discovered 1949, onshore Iraq, one of the giant fields of Basra....