What Is the Production Capacity of the Shaybah Field?

The Maximum Sustainable Capacity (MSC) of the Shaybah Field was estimated on December 31, 2018, at one million bbl of crude oil per day. Its proved reserves amounted to 14.86 billion bbl of oil equivalent, including 13.62 billion bbl of liquid reserves.

The Shaybah Field is one of the large oil fields in al-Rub' al-Khali (Empty Quarter) Desert in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Oil was discovered in the field during the drilling of the exploratory well 'Shaybah 1' in 1968. The oil is of the Arabian Super Light type, but it was held as a reserve until 1995.

Since 1998, Saudi Aramco has expanded its production capacity of Arabian Super Light crude oil extracted from the Shaybah Field from five hundred thousand bbl per day to one million bbl per day in 2016.