The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has refuted allegations of Sadad Al-Husseini, a former employee at the Saudi Aramco, in his statements to Reuters on Thursday, November 9, 2005. His statements were pertaining to the capability of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in increasing its productive capacity within next four years. 'The allegations of Al-Husseini in which he said that the Saudi Aramco and the Saud oil industry in general are facing problems in obtaining rigs and the required equipment for increasing production are false and baseless, and these are based on individual assessment and estimation, and these may be for personal goals, said an official source at the Ministry in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency. 'Al-Husseini after the end of his work at Saudi Aramco has used to make statements to the international media about the Saudi petroleum industry, and about important topics like the productive energy, increase of production and the volume of the oil reserves', said the official source adding that his statements are not only misleading and wrong, but they also cast doubts on the capabilities of the Saudi petroleum industry, and they constitute an insult to the Kingdom's inalienable policy and role for realizing the world petroleum market'. 'The kingdom is going ahead on its current and future plans for increasing its productive capacity as it was earlier announced to reach a productive capacity of 12.5 million barrel per day by 2009, and these plans are going on in line with the set time table without facing obstacles either technical or financial obstacles or problems pertaining to Saudi human cadres', the official source added.
