stream increments totaling 2.35 million barrels per day (bpd) from seven fields, Al-Naimi said that production capacity is estimated to reach 12.5 million bpd by 2009. The minister noted that although the lion's share of global attention is focused on the Kingdom's upstream oil capacity expansion, the country is also doing its part to increase and upgrade refining and related capacities worldwide and also is focusing on downstream capacity expansion.
