Ghawar Oil Field, Al-Ahasa, Saudi Arabia
25° 25’ 48” N, 49° 37’ 12” E
The Ghawar Oil Field is owned and operated by the state run oil company, 
Saudi Aramco. Discovered in 1948 it is estimated to have produced over 65 billion barrels of oil. It remains the largest oil field in the world producing approximately five million barrels of oil and two billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. The International Energy Agency has declared that the reserve is approximately half way depleted, although this is highly contested.