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Article: Saudi to bring Manifa oil field online in 2013.
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- Oil & Gas News
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: MANAMA:
Saudi Arabia plans to bring online in 2013 the last of the giant oil field projects on its expansion slate, an official at state oil giant Saudi Aramco said.
Aramco slowed work at the 900,000 barrels per day (bpd) Manifa project as it looked to cut costs on oil service contracts at the field and across its energy industry.
A slump in global energy demand has made further oilfield development less urgent for the world's top oil exporter. After delaying the project this year, no further delays were envisaged for now, Aramco's vice president of Northern Area Oil Operations Fahad Al-Moosa told reporters on the sidelines of an energy ...