Made in KSA

[Saif al-Arab]

Some exciting news (to put it mildly);

In short;

ARAMCO has been expanding its presence along the Red Sea coastline and at the end of the 2018, KSA's capacity of oil exports can in theory reach 15 million barrels of crude oil per day which is a huge number.

Likewise 100 billion barrels of oil have been discovered in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea coast.

In 2016, KSA expoted 7.1 million barrels per day of crude oil.

http://www.alriyadh.com/1658886

Related news;

Most advanced reservoir modeling technology

Dr. Ali Dogru leading work with the TeraPOWERS team.

In 2016, we achieved the industry’s first trillion-cell simulation and hydrocarbon migration algorithm, run on the latest evolution of our POWERS (parallel oil and water enhanced reservoir simulator) technology.

Our TeraPOWERS team ran the industry's first trillion-cell simulation and hydrocarbon migration algorithm.

We developed POWERS in-house, and at the time of its first deployment in 2000, it was capable of million-cell models. In 2010, we unveiled GigaPOWERS, which ran billion-cell models.

Now, the development of TeraPOWERS will make it possible to model the physics of hydrocarbon reservoirs from their original generation to their final production, from microscopic rock pore scale all the way to giant field and even basin scale.

The insights generated by TeraPOWERS, combined with data gleaned from core samples, allows for more precise drilling.

The breakthrough model was made possible through collaboration with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), located north of Jiddah on the Red Sea.

TeraPOWERS will help prioritize prospects, reduce exploration risks and costs, and enable us to sustainably manage the Kingdom’s oil and gas resources for future generations.

http://www.saudiaramco.com/en/home/innovation/stories-of-progress/reservoir-management.html

ARAMCO is doing a tremendous job. Can't be underestimated.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

COLUMNS

WAEL MAHDI | Published — Monday 5 February 2018
Aramco stepping up to electric vehicle challenge

When seven oil and energy ministers of OPEC and non-OPEC countries met in Oman’s capital of Muscat last month to discuss the conditions of the oil market and the future of the production-cuts agreement between them, the Sultanate was inaugurating its first electric vehicle charging station.
Surprisingly, the energy minister of the UAE, Suhail Al-Mazrouei, who is the president of this year’s ministerial conference of OPEC, is driving a Tesla electric vehicle.
There is no escape from the challenge of electric vehicles (EVs), it seems, but their threat to conventional combustion-engine vehicles may not seem immediate. It will take a while before EVs can compete on an equal footing with combustion-engine cars that run on diesel or gasoline.
Surely the transport sector is the major oil consumer today, with more than 50 percent of oil going to fuel cars and other means of transport. Thus, any threat to this sector is a danger for oil demand in general.
So what are oil producers doing about this challenge? Some international oil companies are riding the wave by opening up electric car-charging stations. Even national oil companies have joined in. Kuwait Petroleum International last month inaugurated its first European charging station in Belgium.
Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest crude exporter, is taking a different approach. The company is investing in ways to improve the efficiency of combustion-engine vehicles with the aim of lowering their emissions while increasing their mileage.
The main problem of the current internal combustion engine is that it uses spark plugs to ignite gasoline cars, Ahmad Al-Khowaiter, Saudi Aramco’s vice president for technology oversight and coordination, told Arab News. Diesel engines are more efficient as they compress the fuel, and marine engines are the most efficient because they have long strokes.
Aramco is developing in its research centers in Detroit and Paris a gasoline engine that uses diesel-like compression technology. In parallel, it is working with a US company called Achates Power on turning gasoline combustion engines into marine-like long-stroke engines, Al-Khowaiter said. Achates will develop a light-duty truck vehicle with 2.7 liters, three cylinders and six pistons that will be integrated into a F-150 Ford truck. The Aramco-Achates engine will raise the existing mileage from 22 miles per gallon for a conventional gasoline engine to 37 miles per gallon, while mileage of the diesel engine will be 42 miles per gallon, up from 32 miles, he said.

Company is investing in ways to improve efficiency of combustion-engine vehicles to lower their emissions while increasing their mileage.

Wael Mahdi


The combustion engine has a long way to go and there is much room for improvement, Al-Khowaiter acknowledged. However, will there be enough time for Aramco to make all these developments?
Companies such as French giant Total SA believe that by the end of the next decade, around a third of new sales of the global fleet may come from EVs. Many in the industry, nevertheless, including Al-Khowaiter, still don’t believe that EVs will dominate the scene, even with the advances in their battery technology.
On another front, the company is also testing technologies that will increase demand for oil in other areas. It teamed up this month with Chevron Lummus Global — a venture between Chevron and CB&I — to turn up to 80 percent of a barrel of crude directly into chemicals without going through an intermediate stage of refining the crude first. In fact, if Aramco can succeed in turning more crude into polymers, it will supply even more materials to EVs which use many polymers in their manufacture.
Developing and testing new technologies remains a major challenge, and Al-Khowaiter acknowledges that. Still, there are some worries about Aramco’s ability to lead on these new technologies as the company is not known for being active in research and development.
“Technology takes time and we don’t have a track record, I agree,” said Al-Khowaiter, who seemed aware that his company was focusing on upstream research but lagging behind in other areas. However, he has provided “proof points” to show that Aramco will deliver on its new technological push.
First, the company is now the fastest-growing international oil company in terms of patents and is now third among its peers in terms of the number of patents produced annually, he said. Last year alone, Aramco registered 233 patents. This is more than the 100 patents the company had from the 1930s until 2011.
Second, the company has doubled its spending on research, and that increased its research centers and offices around the world to 11 from only two, which were located in Dhahran. The number of scientists employed by Aramco also went up as a result from 600 to 1,300.
Time is running out for Aramco but the company seems to be focused on getting results on crude to chemicals and on improving car engines before the end of this decade and as early as next year. If Aramco can extend the demand for oil beyond transport, that would be good news for the initial public offering of the company, which is expected some time this year.

• Wael Mahdi is an energy reporter specializing on OPEC and a co-author of “OPEC in a Shale Oil World: Where to Next?” He can be reached on Twitter @waelmahdi

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1240146/columns

 

[Saif al-Arab]

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[Saif al-Arab]

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[The SC]

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[The SC]

Director of Domestic Manufacturing Support, #MinistryofDefense: In 2010, we manufactured 182 categories only. In 2017, manufacturing now reached more than 5427 brands and over 65 million pieces with a growth rate of 3000% within 7 years.

https://twitter.com/x/status/963448329836298240

#Taqnia_Company set up a factory for the #solar_panels in #New_Taif with 500 megawatts

https://twitter.com/x/status/962715251576852481

 

[The SC]

2015

New success in Saudi aerospace industry

https://www.baesystems.com/ar-sa/article/double-feat-for-saudi-arabian-aerospace-industry

 

[The SC]

#Matar(Rain)_4 short-range missile guided by laser technology anti-tank missile with a supernatural capable of penetrating and smelting target materials and production of high temperatures working with a solid fuel engine with a force of 8000 Newton and 1500 km / h and the length of 10-15 km, manufactured and developed @KACST # Our industry_gtna # AFD_2018 Private # Made in Saudi Arabia

 

[The SC]

Soldier protection equipments

The Saudi Telecom # 1 (SGS-1) satellite is a world-class integrated 30 Gigabit / s communications system

Completion of the construction of the 14th satellite # Saudi_sat_5 in preparation for its launch, which serves the civil and military sectors

ROIP system to connect military communication networks

Electronic Scanning Multi-mission radar system radar that monitors mobile targets Using active e-scanning technology.. can be used for civil and military navigation purposes with a range of 60 kilometers

Matar_3 A non-guided ballistic missile (hides ships by creating another signature of the ship in another place to disorient attacking missiles)..it is used in the maritime field to protect vessels of high value from the threat of anti-ship missiles with a range of 10-12 km

 

[The SC]

Saudi Shipbuilding Industries Program

Today 1st of March 2018, marks a historic date for the Saudi industry and the Saudi armed forces represented by the Saudi Royal Navy, a huge industrial agreement was signed for the manufacture and supply of several ships and naval platforms for the Saudi Navy with 100% national industry input from:

1- Zamil Company for Advanced Marine Industries.
2 - Advanced electronics company AEC.
3 - Saudi Defense Industries Company SADEC.
4 - Saudi company for development and technical investment .. TAQNIA technology.

The agreement is a building block of the development of Saudi defense industry and the responsibility of the private sector to find local sustainability and regional and international competition and unloading the government sector to supervise the quality of projects and the development of specifications in line with the latest developments and updates of the times.

The products that will be manufactured by Zamil in cooperation with Advanced Electronics Technology and SADEC are:


1- Interceptor HSI 32 boats
Number to be manufactured: 18
The delivery period for the whole project is 39 months.

2-


COMBATTANTE FS56 class boats
Number to be manufactured: 1 out of 3
Duration: 38 months

3-


MILGEM-ADA Corvette
Number to be manufactured: 1 out of 5
The duration of the project is 54 months

4- GOWIND 2500 Corvette
Number to be locally manufactured: 3 out of 5
Duration: The first corvette 40 months, the second 39 months, the third 38 months.

5 - FLOATING DOCK with a capacity of 700 tons
Number to be locally manufactured: 2
Duration: 39 months.

6- FLOATING PONTOON Marine buoys.
Number: 35
Duration: 36 months for the entire project in 3 batches.

* Zamil has localised the manufacture of Rolls-Royce engines and has cooperated extensively with CMN.


AND

Saudi Arabia manufactures and supplies radars for civilian transport and civilian aircraft:

In a remarkable technical gesture from the Saudi Technical Development and Investment Company (TAQNIA). In a 100% Saudi technical effort, the company announced its entry into the radar industry of civil transport and civil aircraft during the AFED -2018 exhibition for local industries. It is offering a radar used for transport aircraft and civil aircraft. Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries with this capability..

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The radar can be integrated and fitted on all Airbus and Boeing aircraft. It will be integrated into Saudi Arabian Airlines as announced today by Dr. Ghassan Al-Shibl, Chairman of the General Organization of Arab Airlines, Saudi Arabia accompanied by Engineer Saleh Al-Jasser, General Manager of Saudi Arabian Airlines.
#TAQNIA Company at # AFED 2018.

The radar has the technical characteristics that make it the best in its kind and can sustain high temperatures and severe cold from -55 to +70.. It has a 360 degree radar coverage. The radar operates on ku-ka waves. It is one of the lightest in the world with less than 56 kg. It has the world's lowest energy consumption, is licensed by the European Aviation Authority and employs wave tracking patterns and INS systems.

 

[The SC]

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) makes radar sensing satellites SAR!

 

[The SC]

ISR

 

[The SC]