Saudi Aramco’s Jafurah Bet Signals Shale Gas Transformation in the Arabian Desert
Deep beneath the sands east of Saudi Arabia’s giant Ghawar oilfield, a transformation is underway that could reshape the kingdom’s energy model for decades. Saudi Aramco’s development of the Jafurah unconventional gas basin represents more than another upstream project; it is a strategic attempt to replicate elements of the U.S. shale revolution in one of…









