Sources d'Al Khobar

Al Khobar Springs refers to the mineral and saline water resources associated with the coastal city of Al Khobar in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, on the Arabian Gulf shoreline adjacent to the Bahrain causeway, where chloride-rich mineral waters from the coastal geological formations of the Eastern Province emerge in a landscape shaped by the oil industry that transformed this fishing village into one of the Arabian Gulf's major commercial cities during the 20th century. The Eastern Province's coastal geology produces chloride-dominant mineral waters from the shallow and deep aquifer systems of the Arabian basement, historically used by the fishing and pearl-diving communities of the pre-oil era along the same coastline where the Arabian Gulf's extraordinary shallow-water pearl beds sustained civilisations from antiquity until the 1930s collapse of the pearl market. Al Khobar's position as part of the Dammam-Dhahran-Al Khobar urban triangle — the heart of Saudi Arabia's petroleum industry and home to Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company — creates a uniquely contemporary Arabian industrial context for the ancient saline spring resources of the Eastern Province coastline.