Shaybah Oil Field

Summary Information

• Operator: Saudi Aramco
• Country: Saudi-Arabia
• Location: Rub’ Al-Khali desert
• Production start: 1998
• Partners:
• Type: Oil & Gas
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume: 1,000,000 bpd

Description

• The Shaybah field is located in the Rub’ Al-Khali desert in the south eastern part of the Kingdom, 800 kilometres from Dhahran making it Saudi Aramco’s most remote oil field
• The field is approximately 13 kilometres wide and 64 kilometres long.
• A 645km pipeline carries the hydrocarbons to processing plants
• It produces Arabian Extra Light crude. The crude is processed at the Abqaiq Oil Processing Plant
• Associated gas is processed at the Sabkha NGL recovery plant

Contractors

• SNC-Lavalin:
• GE: Supply of 11 gas turbine-generators, 44 compressors, motors and services
• Samsung HE: Central Processing Facility Expansion

History

• 1968 - Shaybah Oil Field discovered
• 1998 - First oil produced
• 2006 - SNC-Lavalin awarded a contract to design and build the Shaybah Central Processing Facilities (CPF)
• 2014 - Samsung awarded Central Processing Facility Expansion contract
• 2106 - Expansion completed

Links

1. Shaybah, Aramco
2. SNC-Lavalin Awarded Contract For The Shaybah Expansion Program In Saudi Arabia
3. Saudi Aramco Selects GE for $500 Million Expansion Agreements
4. Contracts signed to help boost Shaybah production