Interesting work, and I went over and checked out the JoulesBurn blog, very interesting, although it would take hours of study and following out all the links to get the full benefit.

More interesting to me is that this type of work could be expanded to make for an interesting Saudi overview. I have long said that if we assume that Ghawar is beginning to tap out, and if KSA wants to stay in the oil business in a big way, then the frontiers are Khurais, offshore Persian Gulf, and the empty quarter.

Can we get Google Earth images of the above areas, to see if any activity is picking up in these three frontier areas (although Khurais cannot be considered frontier in the normal sense, having been known for a long time and now being developed)

Perhaps we could set up a "volunteer" amateur group, sort of like the amateur astronomers that watch the sky for asteriods, to link up and scan various areas of Saudi Arabia (and the world....exactly what is going on offshore China or South America?).

An interesting project to consider!

RC