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Where are the largest oil and gas fields in the world and in the United States? |
The Ghawar field, discovered in 1948 in Saudi Arabia, is the largest in the world; it measures 150 x 22 miles (241 ? 35 kilometers). The largest oil field in the United States is the Permian Basin, which covers approximately 100,000 square miles (160,934 square kilometers) in southeast New Mexico and western Texas.