VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 26

27-MARCH-1995

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco Reactivates Development Plans For Shaybah Field

After a series of fits and starts, it appears that Saudi Aramco is once againpreparing to reactivate plans for developing its giant Shaybah oilfield, locatedin the Empty Quarter desert region along the border with Abu Dhabi. Preliminaryplans now call for a commencement of development work in 1996 with a view toputting the field on stream in 1999. This timetable in itself represents aslight...