Kuwait Oil Company said on Monday it had made an offshore gas discovery at the Jazza Field, with a production capacity of more than 29 million cubic feet per day of natural gas, the company said in a statement.

The field, which spans 40 square km (15.44 square miles), is estimated to hold around 1 trillion cubic feet of gas, it said.

(Reporting by Ahmed Hagagy, Writing by Muhammad Al Gebaly Editing by Tomasz Janowski)