Aramco said it its 2015 annual review, released on Thursday, that oil production averaged 10.2 million barrels per day - "a new all-time record". Production averaged 9.5 million bpd in 2014, a figure that had stayed relatively flat dating back to 2012.

The world's biggest oil and gas company also processed an average of 11.6 billion cubic feet per day of gas, also an all-time record.