Bahrain’s Biggest Oil Find Since 1932 Dwarfs Reserves
- Kingdom currently has two fields, one shared with Saudi Arabia
- New undersea deposit lies off Gulf nation’s western coast
An oil pump operates in an oil field in Awali, Bahrain
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Bahrain, the smallest energy producer in the Persian Gulf, discovered its biggest oil field since it started producing crude in 1932, according to the country’s official news agency.
The shale oil and natural gas discovered in a deposit off the island state’s west coast “is understood to dwarf Bahrain’s current reserves,” Bahrain News Agency reported, without giving figures. U.S. consultants DeGolyer & MacNaughton Corp. evaluated the field, and Bahrain plans to provide additional details on Wednesday about the reservoir’s “size and extraction viability,” BNA reported.