Riyadh: New natural gas fields were discovered in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman confirmed this. The natural gas fields were discovered in four regions in the country – in the central area of the country, in the Empty Quarter desert, near its northern border and in the eastern region.
The fields are Shadoon, in the central region; Shehab and Shurfa, in the Empty Quarter, in the southeastern region; Umm Khansar, near the northern border with Iraq; and Samna, in the eastern region. These new fields can produce over 100 million cubic feet per day in total.
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Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said that two of the gas fields, Samna and Umm Khansar, are ‘non-conventional’. Non-conventional deposits, also known as shale, are usually trapped in tight pore spaces, requiring special extraction techniques.
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