Fascinating charts! I played around a bit with the 2008 Megaprojects data and created a pair of timetables of projects in order of startup; would like to see more graphic representations of this stuff, whether in the Wiki pages or here.

Have been parsing the po.com thread on Saudi Production; our member rockdoc123 had strong criticisms (such as in this post) of Simmons for using the SPE papers to only show the possibly negative aspects of Saudi Armaco's work, while ignoring anything that indicated they were successfully dealing with problems. Has anything more come to light in the SPE papers since Twilight was published showing evidence either way? Joules occasionally makes reference to them but I don't recall seeing much in other contributors' work here.