Information on the shaybah field

Information on the shaybah field

Browse, search the shaybah field a crude oil production in Saudi Arabia and is located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) at the north end of the empty quarter, about 10 km south of the border with Abu Dhabi State-owned Aramco company, started by the Government pumping oil from this field in 1994.

Size

Can pumping shaybah 600,000 barrels a day for 70 years. According to Saudi Arabia, the largest oil exporter in the world, that Shibh medium field, especially when compared to the giant ghawar reservoir pumping millions of barrels a day. However, the field could be pumping half the size of the smallest production producer in OPEC. Like some other major fields suffer from mismanagement and decline quickly to production rates from wells, symbolizes the shaybah field so yielded the expertise and hard work for Aramco technicians discovered an initial reserve reached 15.7 billion barrels.

Field pumping million barrels of oil at the end of 2003, while the company added up estimated 2 million barrels. In 2007, the Guardian newspaper described it as "the closest in value to the gold mine to the oil field, which pumped daily 500,000 barrels of high quality crude oil price moves away from 100 u.s. dollars per barrel today. "This means revenue of up to $ 50 million each 24 hours."[1]

The total length of pipeline from shaybah field to Abqaiq is 638 kilometres, while the pipelines within the shaybah field itself total 735 kilometres in length. The housing facilities for 1,000 people, have added to the administrative offices, fire stations, recreational areas, maintenance and support of workshops. Very severe weather in Chiba, temperatures to 10 ° c in winter and rise to nearly 50 degrees Celsius during the day in summer. Sandstorms occur regularly.

History

Related oil crisis shaybah field, the field is in an area of disputed control previously between Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia. According to officials, the UAE is an area of Abu Dhabi Emirate temporarily ceded to Saudi Arabia, during the early days of independence the UAE vs Al buraimi OASIS crisis between the Saudi border League for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Importance of coastline lies in being close to many country Creek and closed the land border between Qatar and the UAE.