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Shaybah oil field

Crude oil producing site in Saudi Arabia

Summary

Crude oil producing site in Saudi Arabia

Field	Value
name	Shaybah Oil Field - حقل الشيبة
country	Saudi Arabia
region	Rub' al Khali
offonshore	onshore
location_map	Saudi Arabia
location_map_text	Location of the Shaybah oil field within Saudi Arabia
coordinates
relief	yes
operator	Saudi Aramco
discovery	1998
start_development	1998
start_production	1998
peak_year	2022
oil_production_bbl/d	1000000
est_oil_bbl	14000
est_gas_bft	25000
est_gas_bcm	710

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Shaybah Oil Field is a super-giant oil field under the control of Saudi Arabia and is located in the northern edge of the Rub' Al-Khali/Empty Quarter desert. It is located about 10 km south of the border to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, which is a straight line drawn in the desert. It is 40 km south of the eastern part of Liwa Oasis of Abu Dhabi.

Shaybah has housing facilities for 1,000 men, administrative offices, an air-strip, a fire station, recreation areas, maintenance and support workshops, and power stations for generation and distribution. There is a 650-kilometer fibre optic cable linking Shaybah to the main radio system at Abqaiq. Shaybah's weather is extreme, with the temperature dropping to 10 degrees Celsius on winter nights, rising to around 50 degrees Celsius in the summer daytime. Dust storms are a regular occurrence.

History

Shaybah was developed for the purposes of exploiting the Shaybah oilfield. It was established by Saudi Aramco during the 1990s, and, prior to this, only the rough tracks used by early exploration teams existed in this isolated desert region. All materials for the establishment and construction of Shaybah were transported the 800 kilometres from Dhahran to Shaybah by road.

When established, the Shaybah oilfield had estimated reserves of over 14 Goilbbl of crude oil and 25 Tcuft of gas. Saudi Aramco brought the project on-stream in 1998. The crude is Arabian extra light, a high-quality crude grade with a specific gravity of 42 degrees api and a sulphur content of less than 0.7 percent. The oil reservoir is found at a depth of 1,494 meters and is itself 122 meters thick. The oil pipeline from the Shaybah field to Abqaiq is 638 kilometres long, while the pipelines within the field itself total 735 kilometres in length. In 2016 Aramco increased oil output from 750,000 b/d to 1 million b/d.

A drone attack by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group occurred on the field on Saturday 17 August 2019 with aims at disrupting the oil supply.

Airport

A small airport (Shaybah Airport) is located in Shaybah for the exclusive use of Saudi Aramco offering flights for its employees to Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh and al-Hasa.

References

(21 September 2017). "Behind the veil of Saudi Aramco". [[The Economist]].
Reuters Staff. (August 17, 2019). "Houthi attack on Saudi oil field aims to disrupt global oil supply: Saudi minister".
(17 August 2019). "Yemen rebel drone attack targets remote Saudi oil field". [[The Associated Press]].

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