The Manifa field's production capacity is expected to reach 500,000 bpd by July 2013, and is planned to reach its full design capacity of 900,000 bpd of Arabian Heavy crude oil by the end of 2014, while Saudi Aramco's maximum sustained capacity will be maintained at the level preceding Manifa production.

Last October, His Excellency Ali I. Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Saudi Aramco's Chairman of the Board of Directors, led the board members on a review tour of the Manifa field production facilities and inaugurated reservoir water injection along the perimeter of the Manifa field.

The Manifa project is unique in many ways with its innovative engineering design to develop the field's optimum production capacity, while caring for the environment and optimizing its budget.

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