Khurais: Aramco says field to begin producing soon.
Saudis to kick start Khurais field
Saudi Arabia will start production at its 1.2 million barrels per day Khurais oilfield in a few weeks, state-run Saudi Aramco said today.
Khurais is the largest of three oilfield projects that would take Saudi total production capacity to 12.5 million bpd by the end of June.
Although it will not immediately add to the sum of Saudi output it is the biggest ever single increment to global production, according to a Reuters report.
Its initial output was undisclosed.
"... Khurais, a Mega Project, which will add 1.2 million barrels per day of Arabian Light crude oil to the Company's output in a few weeks time," Aramco said in a statement.
The other two fields included in Aramco's programme are the 250,000 bpd Shaybah expansion, which would take capacity at that oilfield to 750,000 bpd and the 100,000 bpd Nuayyim oilfield.