The parts of the desert that appear to be stained a darker brown are most likely the remnants of oil lakes and tar mats that formed after oil well fires were ignited during the Persian Gulf War. In the top image, a network of interlocking roads connects individual wellheads. Vegetation appears red buildings are white and gray water is light blue roads are gray and the desert is tan. (Download the large image to see the broader area.)ĪSTER combines infrared, red, and green wavelengths of light to make false-color images. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of a portion of the Burgan field on September 27, 2009. Oil was discovered at the Magwa field in 1950 and at the Ahmadi field in 1952. The first oil well was installed in Burgan in 1938. The Greater Burgan is comprised of three smaller fields: Burgan, Magwa, and Ahmadi. The oldest and largest of Kuwait’s oil fields-the Greater Burgan field in southeastern Kuwait-produces about 1.6 million barrels of oil a day. The country has an estimated 94 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, about 9 percent of the world’s total. Though a small nation, Kuwait has an outsized role in oil production.
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