Khurais Oil Field on Stream in Mid-2009

Saudi Arabia will bring on stream its 1.2 million barrel a day Khurais oil field development in mid-2009, the country’s oil minister Ali Naimi said Friday.

State-run Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Saudi Aramco, is also working on plans to develop and add capacity at other oil fields including at the onshore Nuayyim and Shaybah fields, and at the large-scale Manifa heavy oil field.