{"id":763,"date":"2012-03-23T10:32:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T15:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2012\/03\/23\/120323-khuraisproject\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:57:57","slug":"120323-khuraisproject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/03\/23\/120323-khuraisproject\/","title":{"rendered":"Khurais Crude Increment Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This will likely be of limited interest to most Gazette visitors, but if you&#8217;re in the awl bidness like me, you might find this as fascinating as I did. It&#8217;s a 22-minute animated video showing the details of a huge oilfield development project in Saudi Arabia (see link below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when I say &#8220;huge,&#8221; I mean &#8220;mind-boggingly humongous,&#8221; at least in oilfield terms. The project, which treats and transports seawater to several inland fields where it&#8217;s injected to increase production from those fields, is touted as not only the largest in Saudi history, but the largest in <i>industry<\/i> history, period. I don&#8217;t know the basis for that claim, but some of the statistics are impressive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The program will increase the capacity of the seawater treatment plant by 4.5 million barrels of water per day (or almost 200 million gallons daily)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.5em;\">As a result of this program, the three oilfields that receive the treated water will produce 1.2&nbsp;million barrels of oil (plus associated natural gas and natural gas liquids) each day &#8211; or more than 5% of the daily average crude consumption in the USA. By way of comparison, the entire state of Texas produces only about a million barrels a day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about this project and the underlying technology, visit <\/span><a style=\"text-align: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/9045\">The Oil Drum<\/a><span style=\"text-align: left;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will likely be of limited interest to most Gazette visitors, but if you&#8217;re in the awl bidness like me, you might find this as fascinating as I did. It&#8217;s a 22-minute animated video showing the details of a huge oilfield development project in Saudi Arabia (see link below). And when I say &#8220;huge,&#8221; I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/03\/23\/120323-khuraisproject\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Khurais Crude Increment Program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11108,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/11108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}