The Oil Drum

About this time last year, I wrote the following into what is now the Classic section of TOD. Given the nature of the current discussion, I hope you don't mind my bringing it back forward, since it appears informative to Prof G's recent question. It relates to current and anticipated production from the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. I have made some slight updates and will put those in parentheses, and marked with UPDATE. The post was as follows:

The attached rough map is derived from one in the OGJ and shows the current oilfields along the Saudi coast, different colors to help with differentiation. (To give a sense of scale the island of Bahrain at the bottom is about 30 miles long).