Ever wonder where our oil comes from?

Here is a rarely seen view from Shaybah Oil Field in Saudi Arabia.

Shaybah oilfield in Saudi Arabia is a major oil crude producing site south of the United Arab Emirates.

This was taking during a tour of the Aramco site. The oil refinery produces 750,000 barrels of crude oil per day and also natural gas. The new facility costs $2 billion and was created in 1998 does a relatively new field -- Aramco city within shaver houses approximately 2000 people. The site is very high-security and very interesting great deal of ingenuity by American and British and Saudi contractors to create the city. His in his own known as the empty Quarter which is a desert area with no inhabitants for hundreds of miles.
The word Shaybah means old man in Saudi Arabia and was named this because of the shape of the area.

Sheila has extreme weather with extremely hot and actually cold temperatures regular dust storms. It was an incredible engineering marvel to create the city and supply the infrastructure needed to build the original roads and airfield and other infrastructure needed to complete the initial construction.
The oil reserves of shape are estimated to be over 14 billion barrels of crude oil and approximately 25,000,000,000,000 ft.³ of natural gas the product the project was first started in 1998 and now is responsible for 750 million barrels of oil per day.


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