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		The anatomy of Ghawar was the topic of a presentation given by Abdulkader Afifi, senior geological consultant at Saudi Aramco, during his recent U.S. tour as an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer.
		Ghawar is a north-trending anticlinal structure, which is expressed on the surface by outcrops of Tertiary rocks.
		The initial discovery in Ghawar's southern part was in 1949 at the Haradh Field, where American geologist Ernie Berg mapped the surface of the Haradh anticline using the ordinary, tried-and-true plane table method.
	www.aapg.org /explorer/2005/01jan/ghawar.cfm (0 words)

	Ghawar
		Ghawar is, therefore, extremely important to the world's economy and well being.
		Ghawar's water injections were hardly news, but a 30% water cut, if true, was startling.
		Ghawar is largely made of dung, which would be hard pressed to be concentrated during a global flood and thus contradicts the young-earth creationist claims.
	home.entouch.net /dmd/ghawar.htm (2308 words)

	Ghawar: The Anatomy of the Worldâs Largest Oil Field, by Abdulkader M. Afifi, #20026 (2004).
		Ghawar is a large north-trending anticlinal structure, some 250 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide.
		Subsequent discoveries were made at Haradh (in the southern part) in 1949, at ÎUthmanijah north of the east-west midline in 1951, at Shedgum in the northeast in 1952, and Hawiyah south of the east-west midline in 1953 (Figure 3).
		Deep Ghawar structure, as depicted in Figure 10 by Silurian dip magnitude and Permian-Silurian isochron, is characterized by eroded sections in the southern and northern paleo-culminations.
	www.searchanddiscovery.net /documents/2004/afifi01/index.htm (1950 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Oscar For An Oilfield (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ghawar is the largest known oil field, not only in Aramco's concession area, but in the world.
		The northernmost portion of Ghawar field lies about 60 miles west of the Arabian Gulf port city of Dammam, which is a 20-minute drive north of Aramco's headquarters community of Dhahran.
		In Ghawar this is accomplished by means of water, augmented in the 'Ain Dar area by gas.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197306/oscar.for.an.oilfield.htm (1234 words)

	Ghawar: The Anatomy of the Worldâs Largest Oil Field, by Abdulkader M. Afifi, #20026 (2004).
		Ghawar is a large north-trending anticlinal structure, some 250 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide.
		Subsequent discoveries were made at Haradh (in the southern part) in 1949, at ÎUthmanijah north of the east-west midline in 1951, at Shedgum in the northeast in 1952, and Hawiyah south of the east-west midline in 1953 (Figure 3).
		Deep Ghawar structure, as depicted in Figure 10 by Silurian dip magnitude and Permian-Silurian isochron, is characterized by eroded sections in the southern and northern paleo-culminations.
	www.searchanddiscovery.com /documents/2004/afifi01/index.htm (1950 words)

	Ghawar Is Dying
		Unless Ghawar is dying, in which case it is a very big deal indeed--and will get considerably bigger before it's all over.
		By the time Ghawar begins to die--and by the time we hear about it--hundreds of other oil fields all over the world will also be dead and gone.
		Ghawar will still be pumping crude oil at an impressive rate as the industrial world of man comes to a creaking, painful halt.
	www.newcolonist.com /ghawar.html (0 words)

	The End of Oil; ISBN-10: 0618239774 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ghawar’s water injections were hardly news, but a 30 percent water cut, if true, was startling.
		Ghawar wouldn’t run dry overnight: depletion takes years and even decades; however, daily production would continue to fall steadily, and the Saudis would be forced to tap new fields, like Shayba, to maintain their status as the world’s preeminent oil power.
		To me, Ghawar is the perfect metaphor for what is happening to the larger energy economy, a geologic cautionary tale for a complacent world accustomed to reliable infusions of cheap energy.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=excerpt&titleNumber=688199 (5941 words)

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		For those who don't know much about Ghawar, it is by far the largest conventional oil field in the world, measuring an estimated 175 miles by 20 miles (280km by 30 km).
		According to industry experts a few months ago Ghawar was producing 55 percent water -- in other words, more than half of the fluid brought to the surface was not oil.
		The question of whether Ghawar's production is in permanent wane is of vital importance for the global industrial society, yet it has never been broached in a serious way by the mainstream media.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article17077.htm (1512 words)

	SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=22916167
		Fears that the massive Ghawar oil field in Saudi Arabia may have passed its prime have been the stuff of speculation for many years.
		Ghawar has underpinned Saudi Arabia’s dominance of the oil market ever since it came on stream in 1951.
		Don Coxe, an analyst from the Bank of Montreal, once described Ghawar as having passed “Hubbert’s Peak”, a phrase used in honour of geologist M King Hubbert, who predicted oil field decline in the 1950s.
	www.siliconinvestor.com /readmsg.aspx?msgid=22916167 (646 words)

	Listen
		Ghawar the prankster continued to appear on television until 1981, when Lahham replaced him with Ghawar the good citizen, who is often overpowered by strong and powerful men in society, and almost always, defeated.
		The humble, kind, and defeated Ghawar, or Wadud, was a reflection of the humble, kind, and defeated Arab citizen, who is overpowered by regional and international circumstances, and is unable, and unwilling, to say no to his fate, accepting it rather sluggishly.
		As for Ghawar, he continued to be an all-time favorite in all of Lahham's works, and is considered today the most popular fictional character in the 20th century throughout the Arab World.
	www.duraidlahham.com /filmography.htm (2161 words)

	Trouble in the World's Largest Oil Field-Ghawar \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		Ghawar, which produces 4.5 million barrels per day, Cantarell in Mexico, which produces nearly 2 million barrels per day, Burgan in Kuwait which produces 1 million barrels per day and Da Qing in China which produces 1 million barrels per day.
		In the iconography of oi, Ghawar is the mythical giant that makes most other fields look puny and mortal.
		Back to the serious issue of Ghawar, an almost poetic ode to the death of Ghawar can be found at www.newcolonist.com/ghawar.html.
	www.energybulletin.net /1269.html (0 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Saudi Arabia: 1.2 trillion barrels of oil ... or more
		Ghawar is well known as the world's largest oilfield within the petroleum industry and among analysts and energy journalists.
		For his discussion of the physical characteristics of Ghawar, Simmons refers not to his own data, but to the data presented on the Internet by oil consultant Greg Croft.
		Their argument would be that fields such as Ghawar might well contain oil in multiple strata of sedimentary rock, down all the way to the bedrock.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47313 (1115 words)

	Peak Oil- Challenges Tired Saudi Oil Fields
		The average decline rate in Saudi Aramco's mature fields — Ghawar and a few others — "is in the range of 8 percent per year," without additional remediation, according to the company's statement.
		One internal company estimate from 2002 puts Ghawar's production at 5.25 million barrels a day in 2011, more than half the total expected crude oil capacity of 10.15 million, according to United States government officials and oil executives.
		The I.E.A. warned in November that huge investments would be needed to offset the decline rates in mature Middle Eastern oil fields — it put the average at 5 percent — and the increasing costs of oil and gas production.
	www.countercurrents.org /peakoil-gerth250204.htm (1804 words)

	IOC, ONGC arm eye Saudi gas field
		Ramachandran said he had a round of discussion on getting a stake in the South Ghawar field with the Saudi Aramco CEO Abdullah S Jumah last month, when he had gone to Riyadh for renewing the annual contract for the import of crude oil.
		ONGC Videsh would have a majority stake in the consortium, bidding for the South Ghawar field that is estimated to hold 35 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves, he said.
		The South Ghawar project, located north of the Empty Quarter, includes the construction of two electricity and desalination plants as well as two petrochemicals plants in the eastern and western provinces.
	www.rediff.com /money/2003/jul/09iocongc.htm (518 words)

	Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia
		The Ghawar Oil Field is by far the largest conventional oil field in the world and accounts for more than half of the cumulative oil production of Saudi Arabia.
		The source rock for the Ghawar oil is believed to be the Tuwaiq Mountain Formation, which underlies the Hanifa.
		The fact that the Ghawar oil-water contact is substantially higher on the west flank than on the east indicates a hydrodynamic gradient to the east, which may explain the much larger volume of oil in Ghawar than in Khurais.
	www.gregcroft.com /ghawar.ivnu (0 words)

	Ghawar.org, Ghawar, Saudi Oil, Oil In The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Frontline PBS The House Of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ghawar occupies an anticline above a basement fault block dating to Carboniferous time, about 320 million years ago; Cretaceous tectonic activity, as the northeast margin of Africa began to impinge on southwest Asia, enhanced the structure.
		Ghawar was discovered in 1948 and put on stream in 1951.
		This expansion of oil reserves was primarily attributable to two discoveries made by Aramco, the onshore Ghawar and the offshore Safaniya oil fields, in 1951.
	www.ghawar.org (14016 words)

	DWINDLING OIL RESERVES: When the Oil Runs Out... - Science - RedOrbit
		Ghawar is the treasure of the Saudi treasure chest.
		It is the largest oil field in the world and has produced, in the past 50 years, about 55 billion barrels of oil.
		Simmons found that the Saudis are using increasingly large amounts of water to force oil out of Ghawar.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=238321&source=r_science (1385 words)

	The Staton Jones Report: As goes Ghawar, so goes the world
		As crude spot prices on NYMEX topped $48/bbl today (actually flirting with $49 before receding slightly to a session close price of $47.64), we would do well to ponder very seriously what the end of cheap oil means for every...
		As crude spot prices on NYMEX topped $48/bbl today (actually flirting with $49 before receding slightly to a session close price of $47.64), we would do well to ponder very seriously what the end of cheap oil means for every man, woman and child on the planet.
		"Ghawar will not run dry overnight, but the beginning of the end of its oil is in sight."
	www.deltos.com /reference/SJR/archives/000619.html (440 words)

	The Oil Drum \| ghawar
		Stuart explained how the numbers that he, and others at TOD, had put together and painted the picture of Ghawar depletion, (which is in the citation so I won’t repeat it) and Euan put this in the broader context of Saudi Arabia in general.
		A possible decline of Ghawar is happening in a context of record oil rig counts, record domestic consumption and record oil prices.
		If Ghawar is in terminal decline, supply growth from other fields has to be at least 2% a year in order to maintain a flat production and 4% a year in order to maintain flat exports.
	www.theoildrum.com /tag/ghawar (0 words)

	Crisis Energética - Ghawar se agota
		Ghawar se agota - Escrito por: hemp sobre viernes, julio 30 2004 @ 10:11 CEST
		Ghawar se agota - Escrito por: hemp sobre sábado, julio 31 2004 @ 05:25 CEST
		Ghawar se agota -- Aquí teneis la traudcción.
	www.crisisenergetica.org /article.php?story=20040730181107762 (2354 words)

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		Naturally with the theory of peak oil coming increasingly under discussion, the focus is bound to shift on Ghawar, the world’s super giant well — accounting for more than six percent of the global oil needs and almost 52 percent of the total Saudi output.
		Consequently, Ghawar continues to be the Saudi kingpin and would continue to do so, as “an extensive observation and drilling plan is in place at Ghawar and is supplemented with permanent down hole monitoring and intelligent well completions.”
		No one hence is arguing the fact that Ghawar is an aging field and Aramco is alive to the question and is taking steps to counter this rather natural process.
	www.peak-oil-news.info /the-peak-oil-movement/print (806 words)

	Global Guerrillas: TARGET: GHAWAR
		Given this analysis, global guerrilla risk to Ghawar, as the global mega-hub of oil production, is the most dangerous of the risks we face.
		Ghawar is vulnerable to attacks on: wells, personnel, management systems, pipelines, water facilities (water is injected into the field to push out oil), power facilities, power transmission, and more.
		Global Guerillas posts that the attack on the Saudi Consulate was a 'shaping' attack in preparation for the infrastructure attacks he expects at Ghawar and other Saudi oilfields and distribution hubs.
	globalguerrillas.typepad.com /globalguerrillas/2004/05/journal_oil_con.html (0 words)

	US Critic Predicts End Of Saudi Arabia's "Oil Miracle"
		From his research, Simmons maintains that "all five of these fields have a litany of problems." By way of example, Simmons said that Safaniya has only one main sand, in the north; "Zuluf has a myriad of problems"; and one of the offshore fields, Marjan, is plagued by high hydrogen sulfide content.
		Aramco estimated Ghawar reserves to be 60 billion bbl in 1975 on the basis of 400 wells and a very clear mapping of the oil-water contact, which was enough information for a relatively accurate assessment, in Simmons view.
		's second largest after Ghawar, comes from one zone in the northern part of the field and 7-10 other non-producing sands are nowhere near as appealing, as sand control and a growing water cut plague the north, Simmons maintains.
	www.energyintel.com /DocumentDetail.asp?document_id=120417 (1035 words)

	New study raises doubts about Saudi oil reserves (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Found in 1948, the 300-mile-long sliver near the Persian Gulf is the world's largest oil field and accounts for 55%-60% of all Saudi oil produced.
		Ghawar's current proven reserves are 12% of the world's total.
		According to Simmons, Ghawar's northern regions are almost depleted.
	www.iags.org /n0331043.htm (1199 words)

	village voice > news > Mondo Washington: Saudi Arabia's Oil Facade by James Ridgeway
		Ghawar is the biggest oil field in the world, providing between 6 and 8 percent of total global production.
		Since it was first tapped, Ghawar has yielded an astounding 55 billion barrels of oil, at the current rate of 5 million barrels per day.
		But Saudi officials reassured the group that Ghawar could keep on producing 5 million barrels a day, and if need be, yield 10 or 12 or even 15 million barrels a day.
	www.villagevoice.com /news/0527,mondo1,65566,6.html (1342 words)

	Basement tectonics of Saudi Arabia as related to oil field structures, by H. Stewart Edgell
		As in the case of Ghawar, the world's largest oil field, the presence of an underlying, N-S directed, horst block was first suggested by Aramco (1959).
		Instead, it is considered that repeated reactivation along the original faults bordering the basement horst blocks has accounted for most of the structural growth, as can indeed be demonstrated by thinning of overlying formations onto the axes of the uplifts (Sugden 1962) and by truncation of strata in their axial areas.
		From this survey, it was deduced that the Ghawar oil Field was underlain by an upfaulted basement hock, or horst (Fig.
	perso.orange.fr /brcgranier/gmeop/Edgell_1992.htm (7816 words)

	The World’s Largest Oil Field is Dying : By Luke Burgess : Ghawar, Oil, Saudi : Energy and Capital
		Ghawar is so large that its production accounts for about 60% of all Saudi Arabian oil.
		Still, Ghawar is the undisputed heavyweight king of kings when it comes to oil fields.
		And the new oil fields found elsewhere around the globe are tiny when compared to Ghawar and therefore will not be able to deliver enough oil to make up the difference.
	www.energyandcapital.com /editorials.php?id=253 (1957 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Trouble in the world's largest oil field -- Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar
		Ghawar, which produces 4.5 mm bpd, Cantarell in Mexico, which produces nearly 2 mm bpd, Burgan in Kuwait which produces 1 mm bpd and Da Qing in China which produces 1 mm bpd.
		Ghawar's water injections were hardly news, but a 30 % water cut, if true, was startling.
		Saudi Aramco is injecting a staggering 7 mm barrels of sea water per day back into Ghawar, the world's largest oilfield, in order to prop up pressure.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntm43590.htm (1584 words)

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