Reply #61: Rumor has it that salt water is rising rapidly in Ghawar

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Nothing you can tie a reference to, but at the ASPO forums, there were several discussions with the Iranian rep. (whose name I can't recall) about just what's happening with EOR operations on Ghawar.

Apparently the Saudis have been intensively injecting salt water for a number of years so as to maintain maximum production. This means that Ghawar, when it rolls over, will likely do so very quickly.

Incidentally, the ASPO monthly newsletters are great for country-by-country summaries of where the major fields are, what discovery and production trends are doing and a handy compendium of oil- and oil-industry-related news stories.