BACKGROUND (Part 1)
The game
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Ghawar
is the biggest oil field of the world. It is
situated in Saudi-Arabia and has been developed
1948/1949. Approximately 60 to 65% of the total
oil production of Saudi-Arabia from 1948 to 2000
derives from this oil field. The dialy production
is estimated to about 5 mln. barrels, which
resembles 6% of the total world production (~84
Mio. barrels per day). Gigantic production Estimations on the total amount of available oil in Ghawar vary between 70 and 170 giga-barrel. Nowadays, about 8 mln. barrels are being pumped into the oilfield to keep the production on the current level. 2005 it has been discussed, Ghawar had already arrived at the production maximum. The magazine „Energy and Capital“ wrote in 2006 a member of the Saudi-Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco did say that the oldest fields (including Ghawar) showed a decline of 8% in the yearly production. |