Fossil Energy – Oil Discovery
Kuwait Oil Company said it has made a discovery of large commercial volumes of hydrocarbons at Al-Jlaiaa offshore field estimated at 800 million of medium-density oil barrels and 600 billion standard cubic feet of associated gas.
The Al-Jlaiaa field, located in Kuwaiti territorial waters, covers an area of 74 square kilometers.
The discovery was made during the exploration drilling at the Zubair geological reservoir from the Cretaceous period in the well Jlaiaa 2.
