Oil reserves in Kuwait

Kuwait is OPEC's third largest oil producer and claims to hold approximately 104 billion barrels (16.5×10^9 m3).

This includes half of the 5 billion barrels (790×10^6 m3) in the Saudi-Kuwaiti neutral zone, which Kuwait shares with Saudi Arabia.

Since most of Kuwait's major oil fields are over 60 years old, maintaining production rates is becoming a problem.

[citation needed] During Operation Desert Storm when the Iraqi Armed Forces were retreating from Kuwait, Saddam Hussein ordered a team of engineers to enact a scorched earth policy and set fire to hundreds of oil fields which caused over one billion barrels of oil to go up in flames over the next seven months.

At their height, the fires consumed more than four million barrels of oil per day.

Smoke from burning Kuwait oil fields after Iraqi forces set fire to them during the Gulf War.