DUBAI, April 17 (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco plans to buy Royal Dutch Shell’s 50 percent stake in Saudi refining complex SASREF, a joint venture between the firms, two sources said on Wednesday. One of the sources said an agreement has been reached between Aramco and Shell. Aramco and Shell...
The temptation to publish all this gorgeous reservoir simulation porn has just been overwhelming to Aramco's engineers I guess... This post is a place to continue the Saudi Arabia discussion. To keep the ball rolling, I've extended a couple of my graphs. The above graph is the production...
The first horizontal wells were drilled in 1991 in the KSA, and.by 1993there had been a total of 21 completed. It was then anticipated that horizontal drilling would take half the Aramco drilling budget for the next ten years. (But it should also be noted, as was commented in the post ...
I had learned that Fluor, Bechtel, and Aramco would not send employees overseas until they had five years' experience, but Santa Fe would send me straight away. I rescinded the Bechtel job and agreed to a Saudi posting with Santa Fe to start in Orange, California in January 1978. I was...
'Saudi Aramco has discovered a new oil field south east of Ghawar field,' the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoted oil minister Ali Al Naimi as saying. 'On February 11, oil from the Derwaza-1 well, flowed at a rate of 3,915 bpd associated with 11.9 million cubic feet of gas da...
Aramco officials had shown similar confidence about that plan last year. Nasser said Monday that Khursaniyah would be ready to start in August. "Even with a slight delay, it took 41 months from start to finish compared to the world average of 53 months, still Khursaniyah is doing very well...
Bear in mind that Aramco was only then moving to increase the size of their drilling fleet from historic levels of around 20 rigs to as many as 200 in the years since. And it is that change, with the underlying realities that it implies, that must be recognized when looking into the ...