Al Ghawar

Ghawar is an located in , , . Measuring 280 by 30 km, it is by far the largest conventional oil field in the world, and accounts for roughly a third of the cumulative oil production of Saudi Arabia as of 2018.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: oil field in Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as: “Al Ghawār” and “Ghawar Field”

Al Ghawar

Latitude
25° north
Longitude
49.16667° or 49° 10′ east
Inception
1951
Open location code
7HQF2528+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1237343274
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­oilfield
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q741935
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Al Ghawar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الغوار”
  • Arabic: “حقل الغوار”
  • Basque: “Ghawar”
  • Bengali: “ঘওয়ার তেলক্ষেত্র”
  • Catalan: “Al-Ghawar”
  • Catalan: “Camp Ghawar”
  • Catalan: “Ghawar”
  • Chinese: “加瓦尔油田”
  • Chinese: “加瓦爾油田”
  • Croatian: “Ghawar”
  • Czech: “Ghawar”
  • Dutch: “Ghawar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حقل غوار”
  • Esperanto: “Ghawar”
  • Finnish: “Ghawar”
  • French: “Ghawar”
  • Galician: “Ghawar”
  • German: “Ghawar-Ölfeld”
  • German: “Ghawar”
  • Hebrew: “שדה גוואר”
  • Hungarian: “Ghawar”
  • Icelandic: “Ghawar”
  • Indonesian: “Ladang minyak Ghawar”
  • Italian: “Campo petrolifero di Ghawar”
  • Italian: “Ghawar”
  • Japanese: “ガワール油田”
  • Kazakh: “Äl-Gavar”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Гавар”
  • Kazakh: “ٴال-گاۆار”
  • Korean: “가와르 유전”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ghawarfeltet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ghawarfeltet”
  • Norwegian: “Ghawarfeltet”
  • Persian: “میدان غوار”
  • Persian: “میدان نفتی غوار”
  • Polish: “Ghawar Field”
  • Polish: “Ghawar”
  • Portuguese: “Campo Ghawar”
  • Romanian: “Câmpul Ghawar”
  • Romanian: “Ghawar”
  • Russian: “Аль Гавар”
  • Russian: “Аль-Гавар”
  • Russian: “Гавар”
  • Russian: “Гхавар”
  • Russian: “Свита Араб”
  • Slovenian: “Naftno polje Gavar”
  • Spanish: “Campo Ghawar”
  • Swedish: “Ghawar”
  • Swedish: “Ghawarfältet”
  • Turkish: “Gavar”
  • Ukrainian: “Гавар”
  • Uzbek: “Gavar gaz-neft koni”
  • Uzbek: “Gavar Gaz-Neft Koni”

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