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The state oil giant Saudi Aramco expects to have 900bn barrels of oil resources by 2025, up from the current 790bn barrels, a company executive said yesterday.
Current recoverable crude oil and condensate reserves stand at around 260.2bn barrels.
“Demand for hydrocarbons will rise despite things happening with oil prices,” Jamal al-Khonaifer, development director at Saudi Aramco, told an industry conference in Moscow.
He said 395bn barrels within the 790bn barrels figure are probable and possible contingent resources.
“Aramco produces almost 9.5mn barrels a day, and if it needs to replace these reserves it needs to add almost 35bn barrels of new reserves every 10 years. That’s a very large challenge,” said Sadad al-Husseini, a former top executive at Saudi Aramco.
According to a 2007 US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, Abdallah al-Saif, who was at the time Aramco’s senior vice-president for exploration and production, had said that Aramco has 716bn barrels of total crude reserves, of which 51% are recoverable. He also said that in 20 years, Aramco will have over 900bn barrels of total reserves and future technology will allow for 70% recovery.
Aramco’s CEO Khalid al-Falih said in January the company is “targeting to increase average recovery rates from our oil reservoirs by 20% which could add 160bn barrels of additional reserves.
That’s more than the current reserves of the US, Russia, China, the UK and Brazil combined.”
Yesterday, Khonaifer also said the company is currently pumping 9.7mn to 9.8mn barrels per day (bpd) and plans for next year’s oil production depends on demand.
“We do not care about the oil prices, we don’t play with them. We even don’t have our own benchmark. Of course we are not interested in too high and too low prices,” he said, adding that the Opec heavyweight can easily adjust its production according to demand given its significant spare capacity.
Saudi Arabia has an output capacity of 12.5mn bpd.
Opec meets on November 27 in Vienna to decide on output policy amid calls by some members to cut output to support prices.
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