Saudi Aramco released yesterday its 2005 Annual Review, reaffirming the role it plays as the leading producer of the energy that powers the world's economies and empowers its people. The theme of the Saudi Aramco 2005 Annual Review is "Powering the planet, empowering lives." The publication provides an overview of company operations for 2005, including crude oil and gas exploration, production, processing and transportation, and the company's burgeoning activities in petrochemicals, upstream gas joint ventures and other international and domestic activities. The past year stands out as a remarkable one, as the company embarked on its largest crude oil production capacity-expansion plans in more than a quarter century. The review details the mega projects - Haradh Increment III, Khurais, Shaybah, Nuayyim and Abu Hadriya, Fadhili and Khursaniyah - that, taken together, in less than five years will add the rough equivalent of the annual crude production of Norway or Venezuela. --MORE
