Naimi talks up reserves and efficiency

摘要

Saudi Arabia’s expanded drilling pro-gramme is boosting oil and natural gas reserves at the same time as it keeps production of both at or near record highs(see below).“With today’s tech-nology,our proven recoverable reserves stand at 267bn bl.Our proven natural gas reserves are 300 trillion ft3[3.1 tril-lion m3],”oil minister Ali Naimi says. State-owned Saudi Aramco had reserves of 260bn bl of crude and 288 trillion ft3of gas at the end of 2013 (WPA,23 May,p2).