"The find represents the largest discovery of oil in the Kingdom since 1932, when extraction started on Bahrain's first oil well within the Bahrain oil field," the government said through its official news agency. Bahrain’s official news agency reported on Sunday the discovery of a new oil field off the country’s western coast that is forecast to contain “highly significant quantities of oil and gas.”

The news agency did not provide an estimate of how much oil and gas had been discovered, but it said the field is “understood to dwarf Bahrain’s current reserves.”

“Initial analysis demonstrates the find is at substantial levels, capable of supporting the long-term extraction of tight oil and deep gas,” oil minister Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa told the news agency. Output from the Bahrain oil field started to decline about a decade ago and most of the offshore oil comes from the Abu Saafa field, which yields around 150,000 bpd.
Bahraini state media reports the discovery of the nation's largest known deposit of oil and gas in an offshore field.