Aramco gas increments and unconventionals

Aramco has extensive high-quality gas reserves and exclusive access to the Kingdom's large and growing domestic marketplace.

The company's strategic journey to expand its sales gas production-targets growth of more than 60% by 2030, compared to 2021 levels.

Increased gas production will come from Aramco's associated, non associated and cap gas, as well as unconventional tight gas basins.

Following is a list of ongoing and recently completed Aramco increments and unconventional gas projects.

Increments

Tanajib 

Scheduled completion 2025 

The Marjan Crude Oil Increment program includes construction of a new onshore gas plant comprising gas treatment and processing units, natural gas liquids (NGL) recovery and fractionation units, and gas compression facilities.

Hawiyah Gas Storage

Completed 2024

Saudi Arabia’s first underground gas storage project uses bi-directional wells to inject surplus processed gas into the 'Unayzah reservoir for later reproduction to deal with seasonal changes in demand.

Nine gas compression plants

Completed 2024

Located approximately 100 kilometers apart in remote desert, the compression plants improve and sustain gas production of lower-pressure gas by reducing choke pressure at the wellhead to 300 pounds per square inch gauge.

‘Uthmaniyah 

Completed 2023 

Additional Natural Gas Liquids (NGL), from the Haradh/Hawiyah increment is piped through a new 56” rich gas pipeline to ‘Uthmaniyah for deep ethane recovery, producing valuable feedstock for the petrochemical industry.

Haradh / Hawiayh

Completed 2023

An integrated investment dispensing nine compression plants across 30,000 km² is adding an expected 20 production years, and increased gas plant processing capacity at Hawiyah by nearly one-third.

Unconventional

Unconventional gas, found in reservoir rocks with low permeability, cannot be explored or produced by conventional processes.

Aramco is using advanced extraction methods to develop its unconventional gas reserves.

Jafurah 

Scheduled phased completion 2027 

Jafurah unconventional gas basin, the largest liquid-rich shale gas play in the Middle East, spans 17,000 km² between the Ghawar oil field and the Arabian Gulf, and holds an estimated 200 trillion cubic feet of rich raw gas. 

2023 South Ghawar

Completed November 2023

Located southwest of the giant Ghawar oil field, unconventional gas production from Aramco’s South Ghawar operation represented the company’s second unconventional gas stream.

2018 North Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s first unconventional gas project was able to extract premium North Arabian gas, both sweet and dry, for cleaner burning domestic power generation in one of the Kingdom’s least populated regions.