The Saudis are staging a massive PR effort for their Khurais redevelopment project . A sampling: UPI: Saudis show journalists huge oil project NY Times: Saudi Oil Project Brings Skepticism to the Surface AP: Giant Saudi field is key to boosting oil output FT: Saudis rely on Khurais to speak volumes The National (UAE): Khurais joins Saudi giants Journalists were brought in en masse. Of course, I am miffed that they did not invite me. But I doubt that Matt Simmons was invited either. Some tidbits: Now the Saudis are deploying an extraordinary engineering effort to bring Khurais’s mile-deep oil to the surface. Seawater will be carried through new pipelines from the Persian Gulf and injected into oil-bearing rock to pressure the oil upward. Usually Aramco pumps seawater into a field only after several years of production, and some skeptics point to this as a reason to doubt that Khurais will live up to its billing. But Mr. Nasser said the huge seawater injection system at Khurais was about...
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