Saudi Aramco made a deepwater oil discovery, Al-Haryd, in the Red Sea in 2013, the firm has revealed in its annual report.
The discovery was one of three oil and two gas fields made by Saudi Aramco in 2013, taking its total number of discovered fields to 121.
The firm also conducted its first deep water drill stem test operation in 2013, at Duba-1, in the Northern Red Sea. Tests conducted in sea water at a depth of 2127ft indicated tight reservoirs for potential future development.
The 2013 Red Sea discoveries followed Saudi Aramco's 2012 success in the Red Sea, with the gas discovery at Shaur. Saudi Aramco described Shaur as a "potential game changer in the future of the kingdom's energy mix."
According to a paper by M. Zinger at the EAGE/SPE Workshop on Sub-Salt Imaging in February this year, there were nine wells drilled back in the 1960s by international companies in shallow waters of the Saudi Arabian portion of the Red Sea, with one discovery.
Saudi Aramco initiated a team to explore in the marine portion of the Red Sea six years ago, and has acquired a regional grid of 2D seismic, and several large 3D Wide Azimuth surveys, accompanied by Full Tensor Gradiometry, Marine Magneto-Tellurics, and Controlled Source Electromagnetics.
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