SAUDI ARABIA
 
Saudi Arabia Adds Projects To ‘Difficult’ Gas Challenges
 
By Nick Wilson in Saudi Arabia
 
Saudi Arabia is adding to its ‘difficult’ gas challenges. Saudi Aramco is conducting talks for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technology for an estimated 600 trillion cubic feet (tcf) plus of shale gas reserves. It is also studying Jurassic formations in the north, and sour gas reserves in South Ghawar, and sinking its first deep...