The Kuwaiti foreign ministry said on Monday that the Gulf state is inviting Iran to hold talks on demarcating maritime boundaries with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The statement emphasized that the sea area where the Dora gas field is located is in the waters of the State of Kuwait and that the natural resources therein are shared between Saudi Arabia and only they have “exclusive rights”. That,” according to a Reuters report.

Kuwait’s statement comes months after a Chinese-brokered Iran-Saudi deal to restore diplomatic ties between the two countries after a seven-year hiatus.

In March 2022, Iran claimed its “right” to invest in the disputed Durra field, located in the waters between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

The Iranian demands at the time came days after Saudi Arabia and Kuwait signed a document to develop the Torah sector off the coast as a step towards implementing a memorandum of understanding signed by the two countries in December 2019. Dora Field.”

The dispute between Iran and Kuwait in this field dates back to the sixties of the last century, dating back to 1967, when each side awarded exploration rights in offshore fields to two different companies. Northern part of Dora Valley.

According to Reuters, one part of the field is located on the border between Iran and Kuwait, and the second part is on the border between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Exploration began in Iran’s field in 2001, when Kuwait and Saudi Arabia agreed to delimit their maritime boundaries and plan to develop joint oil fields, AFP reported.

In 2012, Al-Kafji Company began developing the field, but in 2015 Tehran made a decision to develop the field and extract gas for its benefit.

In the past years, Iran and Kuwait have held talks to resolve the dispute over the continental shelf in the maritime boundary between the two countries, but they have not come to any conclusion.