Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman announced on Monday the discovery of seven oil fields natural gas and Petroleum with a total production capacity of more than 28 million cubic feet of gas per day and more than 11,000 barrels of crude oil, the official Saudi news agency SPA reported.
The minister said the new fields were discovered by Saudi oil company Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, in the east and southeast of the kingdom, according to the agency. “The Saudi Arabian oil company was able to discover two unconventional oil fields, one Arabian light oil well, two natural gas fields and two natural gas sources from the same well,” SPA highlighted.
He pointed out that, in the eastern region of the country, two unconventional oil fields have been discovered; the first in the ‘Ladam-2’ well, with a capacity of 5,100 barrels per day and 4.9 million cubic meters of gas per day, and the second … ‘Al Farouk-4’, which generated 4,557 barrels of oil and 3.79 million cubic meters of gas per day.
Another discovery was made at the Mazaliy-62 well, which produced 1,780 barrels of light oil per day and only 0.7 million cubic meters of gas per day.
The agency said that in the Rub al Khali area, in the south of the country and one of the largest sand deserts in the world, two new sources of natural gas have been discovered in the same well. ‘Al Yahaq-1’; One produces 5.3 million cubic meters of gas per day and the other 1.1 million cubic meters.
He also noted that a new gas extraction point was discovered in the well ‘Al Katuf-1’, with a production capacity of 7.6 million cubic meters of gas per day; and another of 4.9 million cubic meters of gas per day in the well ‘Asikra-6’both also located in Rub al Jali.
The announcement of these discoveries comes a day after Saudi state oil company Aramco signed contracts worth more than US$25 billion for the expansion of its main gas network and for the development of the second phase of the Al Jafurah gas field.
Saudi Arabia has been trying for years to diversify its economy, which is heavily dependent on oil, and to look for new ways to generate energy, mainly those related to gas and hydrogen.
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Source: Gestion
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