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Saudi Aramco Company
Introduction
Saudi Aramco officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (formerly Arabian-American Oil
Company), is a Saudi Arabian multinational petroleum and natural gas company based in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue. Saudi Aramco
has both the world's second-largest proven crude oil reserves, at more than 270 billion barrels
and largest daily oil production of all oil producing companies. Saudi Aramco operates the
world's largest single hydrocarbon network, the Master Gas System. Its 2013 crude oil
production total was 3.4 billion barrels (540,000,000 m3), and it manages over one hundred oil
and gas fields in Saudi Arabia, including 288.4 trillion standard cubic feet (scf) of natural gas
reserves. Saudi Aramco operates the Ghawar Field, the world's largest onshore oil field, and the
Safaniya Field, the world's largest offshore oil field.
Saudi Aramco's origins trace to the oil shortages of World War I and the exclusion of
American companies from Mesopotamia by the United Kingdom and France under the San
Remo Petroleum Agreement of 1920. The US administration at the time had popular support for