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Aramco discovers new gas fields

SAUDI ARABIA SAUDI Arabia announced over the weekend and the Iraqi border. It flowed at a rate of 2 mmcf
that state oil firm Saudi Aramco has discovered (57,000 cubic metres) per day of gas and 295 bpd
new gas fields in four regions of the Kingdom, of condensate.
boosting the size of its conventional and uncon- Another unconventional discovery, Samna,
ventional gas reserves. was made south of the Ghawar oilfield in the
On February 27, the Saudi Press Agency Eastern Province. Samna flowed at a combined
(SPA) quoted Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz rate of 26.7 mmcf (0.756 mcm) per day of gas and
bin Salman Al Saud as saying that Aramco had 193 bpd of condensate from three wells.
discovered five new gas fields – three conven- According to the company’s 2020 annual
tional and two unconventional – in the centre report, Aramco has a total conventional and
of the country, the south-eastern Rub’ Al-Khali unconventional raw gas processing capacity
(Empty Quarter), near the border with Iraq, and of 18.3bn cubic feet (518 mcm) per day which
in the oil and gas-rich Eastern Province. primarily feeds into the Master Gas System net-
The Shadoon gas field was discovered around work, which in turn has a current capacity of 9.6
180 km south-east of Riyadh, with Prince Abdu- bcf (272 mcm) per day following expansion in
laziz saying that the discovery had a flow rate 2017 and 2018.
of 27mn cubic feet (0.765mn cubic metres) per The company achieved a single-day gas pro-
day of gas and 3,300 barrels per day (bpd) of duction record of 10.7 bcf (303 mcm) in mid-
condensate. 2020 while producing an average of 9.03 bcf (256
The Shehab and Shorfa fields were both mcm) per day during the year.
found in the Rub’ Al-Khali, 70 km and 120 km Under plans estimated to cost around $110bn,
south-west of the giant Shaybah oilfield respec- Aramco intends to kick off production at the
tively. Shehab had a flow rate of 31 mmcf (0.878 unconventional Jafurah basin to the east of Gha-
mcm) per day of gas, while Shorfa flowed at 16.9 war in early 2024 and achieve 2.2 bcf (62 mcm)
mmcf (0.489 mcm) per day of gas and 50 bpd of per day of sales gas by 2036. It is also expected to
condensate. produce around 550,000 bpd of NGLs and con-
The unconventional Umm Khansir field was densates. The first phase is seen producing 1.1
discovered 71 km south-east of the city of Arar in bcf (31 mcm) per day of raw gas, which will be
the Northern Borders Province, between Sakaka processed on-site.™

Saudi Arabian gas fields

Source: Aramco

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