Aramco's Flagship Jafurah Gas Project is Not A Gamechanger for Saudi Arabia

Operations at Saudi Arabia’s Jafurah shale gas field – the country’s largest unconventional non-oil associated gas site and arguably one of the biggest outside the U.S. – will begin this year, according to a comment last week from Saudi Aramco’s president and chief executive officer, Amin Nasser. The oil and gas giant added that Phase 1 is expected to produce 200 million standard cubic feet per day (Mscfd) of gas this year, with the figure set to rise to 2 billion standard cubic feet per day (Scfd) by 2030.…