JEDDAH, 5 July 2006 — Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Ali Al-Naimi yesterday announced the discovery of a gas field in the eastern region capable of producing 20 million cubic feet of gas per day, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The field is also expected to yield 1,400 barrels a day of condensates, the minister said. The new field called Zamlah 1, which was tested by Saudi Aramco, lies 50 kilometers to the south of the Al-Ghawar field and 250 kilometers to the southeast of Riyadh.
The Kingdom has natural gas reserves of 238 trillion cubic feet and has been producing about 2.12 trillion cubic feet a year since 2003.
While its current oil output is around 9.6 million barrels per day, the Kingdom is working to boost its capacity to 12.5 million bpd by 2009.
