Aramco is using advanced seismic technology to look again at assets in the country's Empty Quarter after previously failing to find recoverable amounts of natural gas. Aramco’s crew is exploring an area spanning 15,400 square kilometers (5,946 square miles) around Turayqa—an onshore conventional gas field discovered in 2013, which contains no oil. The technique analyses the effects of artificially induced shockwaves to build up a three -dimensional picture of the structure of rock to a depth of around 260 billion barrels , to help identify locations likely to have oil and gas deposits. Technology has advanced to the degree that “data that would have previously taken two to three years to collate can now be consolidated in two to three years ", Saudi Aramco said on its website.
Aramco is using advanced seismic technology to look again at assets in the country's Empty Quarter after previously failing to find recoverable amounts of natural gas. The technique analyses the effects of artificially induced shockwaves to build up a three -dimensional picture of the structure of rock to a depth of around 260 billion barrels , to help identify locations likely to have oil and gas deposits. Technology has advanced to the degree that “data that would have previously taken two to three years to collate can now be consolidated in two to three years ", Saudi Aramco said on its website.