Saudi Arabia is located in the Arabian Peninsula in southwest Asia. Saudi Arabia borders the Persian Gulf in the east and the Red Sea in the west, and borders Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain and Qatar. Saudi Arabia's oil reserves are 297.6 billion barrels, accounting for about 17% of the world's oil, second only to Russia, and its natural gas reserves are 940 million cubic meters, ranking sixth in the world. Saudi Arabia's oil-related industries account for 80% of the national economy. Saudi Arabia has become the core of Arabian Peninsula with its land area, population and economic scale.
In addition, it is the largest producer of desalinated seawater in the world, accounting for about 265,438+0% of the world total. In addition to abundant oil and gas resources, Saudi Arabia also has more than 30 kinds of metal deposits such as gold, copper, iron, tin, aluminum and zinc.
Introduction to other industries
1. Mining: Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 and National Transformation Plan 2020 both take mining reform as a breakthrough to stimulate large-scale growth of the industry. Saudi Arabia is rich in mineral resources, including phosphate, bauxite, gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, iron ore and rare earth.
There are more than 30 kinds of proven metal minerals in Saudi Arabia, among which gold is the most abundant, accounting for 33% of all metal minerals. At present, there are 0/5 gold mines, 2 silver mines, 3 copper mines, 4 iron mines, 0 chromite mines, 0 phosphate mines, 2 bauxite mines, 2 magnesite mines, 2 zinc mines, 0 uranium mines, 0 kloc mines, niobium and other rare metals.
2. Building materials industry: As the largest demand market in the Middle East, 40% of the decoration building materials in Saudi Arabia are imported, and the market vitality cannot be underestimated. Affected by large-scale infrastructure projects launched by the government and the people, the demand for building materials such as cement, tiles and marble in Saudi Arabia's domestic building materials market has increased substantially. Similarly, the huge demand has also given birth to a good opportunity to build new tile and stone factories. At present, Saudi Arabia's cement production capacity has been surplus, some Saudi special cement has been exported to neighboring countries, and the building materials market such as tiles has been basically saturated.
3. Chemical industry: The flagship enterprise of Saudi chemical industry is Saudi Basic Industries Company. Saudi Basic Industry Co., Ltd. is a global leader in polyethylene, polypropylene and other advanced thermoplastic products, ethylene glycol, methanol and fertilizer manufacturing. The company's business covers more than 40 countries and regions around the world. SABIC has established 20 world-class factories in Saudi Arabia. In addition, there are production bases in America, Europe and Asia-Pacific region.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Saudi Arabia.