What Is the Largest Offshore Oil Field in Saudi Arabia?

The Safaniya Oil Field, located about 260 km north of Dhahran City, in the Eastern Province, is the largest offshore oil field in terms of the reserves of traditional resources for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the World. It contains a confirmed reserve of 34.03 billion bbl of oil equivalent.

Most of the field is located within the waters of the Arabian Gulf. It stretches for about fifty km in length and fifteen km in width within the concession area.

Saudi Aramco discovered the Safaniya Oil Field in 1951, two years after excavations began in the water of the Arabian Gulf. The first excavation platforms were established in Safaniya in 1950, around three km within the sea. In 1957, the field reached a daily production capacity of fifty thousand bbl. The productivity of the field expanded until it reached 1.5 million oil bbl daily in 2020.