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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.

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A fire broke out in a tank at the fifth ... specifically near the border with Kuwait, is one of the largest oil fields in the world, with estimated oil reserves of 17 billion barrels.