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Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) recently announced the discovery of a "giant" oil field at Al-Nokhatha, east of Failaka Island. The estimated 3.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent resources ...

Meanwhile Iraqi forces also blew up hundreds of oil wells, burning through as many as one billion barrels as fires blazed throughout the year. Photojournalist Steve McCurry was in Kuwait in 1991.

Iraqi Ministry of Oil announced that it has managed to control the massive fire that broke out in an oil field in the south ...