Information on ghawar

Information on ghawar

Ghawar oil field is in Saudi Arabia. Most parts are located in the Eastern province. A large 280x30 km, is the largest oil fields in the world, a vast difference from the next field. It is a field that tdierha national oil company Saudi Aramco, ghawar close to the largest oil refinery in the world and it is a plant bkikl Saudi Aramco.

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Guar was discovered in 1948, and began production in 1951. Historically been divided into five sectors of production of guar, from North to South, weshdkm and Ottoman House hawiyah and haradh. Al Ahsa Hofuf oasis located on the eastern end of Ottoman GUAR. And the city

Name

Its name means guar (emphasis in Waw): deep or long in the ground and this matches the meaning of the Qur'anic verse (say what do you think that your water Gora it comes by water).

Production

Approximately 60-65% of the total Saudi oil production between 1948 and 2000 came from ghawar. Cumulative production to the end of 2005 was about 60 billion barrels (Croft). Currently, ghawar is estimated to produce over 5 million barrels (800,000 m3) of oil a day (6.25% of global production).

Reserves

Saudi Aramco has announced the 71 billion barrels of proven reserves. Some experts, such as Matthew Simmons in his book "mystery in the desert Twilight in the Desert", felt that the production of guar may reach maximum level soon (and begins drying up). However, the former Saudi Aramco officials and oil experts such as Nansen saleri, criticized the book.

Saudi Aramco has been produced from this field more than 65 billion barrels since production began in 1951 to General

2010

The reserve is estimated at 70 to 170 billion barrels. And pumps currently about 8 million barrels of water to offset the pressure and the continuing ability to extract oil. According to some estimates that in 2005, believes that the field has reached the top of productivity and that down now.

On 9 August 2006 Energy and Capital published an article about Saudi Aramco says that the rate of decline in production in the ghawar is about 8% annually. [2][3]

And Professor Michael Michael T. Klare Clary from the University of Massachusetts in the spring of 2006, Hampshire, appreciated the appreciation of the United States Department of energy:

"What draws those different new vision for the Department of energy on the Outlook for world energy, published in July 2005. And remember that what you posted was that it restored the appreciation which was published the year before, which increased the production of the Kingdom during the first quarter of the 21st century from the 12 million barrels per day to 23 million barrels per day. But the new report for the same period the increase was estimated at 1 and 6 million barrels per day and that about half of the previous estimate of increase posted in 2004.

Today the Department of energy estimates the increase in productivity of Saudi Arabia until 2025 about 3 and 16 million barrels a day. The report did not explain the decrease. This seems to be a decline in the Ministry's estimate is due to the effect of what Simmons Simmons and others wary of analyses.