Ajmi, head of Saudi Aramco's Expatriate Employment Division. "We will have representatives at Petrotech talking to interested candidates, collecting their CVs, and explaining to them the professional opportunities and tremendous benefits we can offer them at Saudi Aramco." The expansion program that Al-Ajmi referred to is the subject of a paper submitted by Nabilah M. Al-Tunisi, Saudi Aramco's manager of Project Support and Controls. In the paper, entitled "Saudi Aramco Mega-Projects: Sustaining Stable Energy to the World," Al-Tunisi summarizes the extraordinary investments that Saudi Aramco is making to ensure that the world's growing economies have the energy they need. "The center of gravity for energy demand growth is moving steadily eastward," Al-Tunisi's paper pointed out. "It is worth noting that India is the fourth largest economy in the world and the third largest consumer in Asia that currently imports the vast majority of its oil and gas." Al-Tunisi notes that Saudi Aramco's expansion plans are designed to ensure that growing economies like India's will get the energy they need in a reliable manner. Toward this goal, the company has embarked on an ambitious five-year expansion program that includes five mega-project crude oil increments concurrently. Those projects include: Khursaniyah - 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) Shaybah - 250,000 bpd Nu'ayyim - 100,000 bpd Khurais - 1.2 million bpd Manifa - 900,000 bpd Taken together, these increments will raise Saudi Aramco's production capacity to 12 million bpd by year-end 2009. Al-Tunisi concluded her paper by noting that the rapid transformations of both Saudi and Indian societies are the result not only of the energy provided by companies like Saudi Aramco, but also of the limitless energy and ingenuity of Asia's people. "Asia has abundant reserves of both," she wrote, "which is why this is a golden era for our region, and why the next hundred years indeed promises to be what has been termed the 'Asian Century.'
