OREANDA-NEWS  Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman announced the discovery of fourteen new oil and gas deposits in the kingdom's Eastern Province and in the Rub al-Khali desert.

According to the minister, quoted by the Saudi news agency SPA, the national oil company Saudi Aramco has discovered six new oil fields and two new oil deposits in existing fields, as well as two new gas fields and four new gas deposits in existing fields.

According to Prince Abdelaziz bin Salman, these discoveries "confirm the kingdom's rich hydrocarbon resources, which open up new horizons for economic development and support the kingdom's ability to efficiently and sustainably meet local and global energy demand for decades to come."