While Ghawar is the world’s biggest oilfield the North Field, which sits under the sea just off Qatar, is comfortably the world’s biggest natural gas field. And since we can turn natural gas into heat or power far more efficiently than any other fuel, the amount of useful energy we can extract from here is greater than anywhere else on the planet—bigger even than Ghawar and all the oil flowing through the Ras Tanura terminal in Saudi. At the time of writing, nowhere else came close to the North Field, making it the single most important energy source on earth.[1]
