Saudi Arabia has launched production at the giant Jafurah natural gas field, the largest non-associated gas development in the Kingdom, which is key to the Saudi goal to significantly boost its gas processing capacity to meet rising demand.
Saudi Aramco, the state oil giant, has completed the first phase of the Jafurah Gas Plant construction and launched production at the field with a capacity of 450 million cubic feet per day, the Saudi Finance Ministry said in the 2026 Budget announcement.
Sustainable production at Jafurah is expected to reach 2 billion cubic feet of gas per day after the project is completed by 2030, the ministry said in highlights of the key Saudi achievements in the 2025 fiscal year.
Earlier this year, BlackRock, through its Global Infrastructure Partners unit, led an $11 billion lease deal with Saudi Aramco involving key natural gas infrastructure tied to the Jafurah project.
With a price tag of a total of $100 billion, the Jafurah development is described as the largest unconventional gas development outside the United States. Its reserves are estimated at some 229 trillion cubic feet of natural gas plus 75 billion barrels of condensate.
When completed by 2030, the huge project is also expected to produce
420 million standard cubic feet per day of ethane, and 630,000 barrels per day of high-value liquids by 2030.
The Jafurah project is a cornerstone of Saudi Aramco’s strategic gas expansion, which focuses on supplying growing natural gas demand in the Kingdom while investing in global LNG markets.
“Jafurah kickstarts our plan to expand our overall sales gas production capacity, which will contribute to Saudi Arabia’s growth ambitions across multiple sectors including energy, artificial intelligence, and major industries such as petrochemicals,” Aramco president and CEO Amin Nasser said upon the completion of the $11-billion Jafurah midstream deal.
By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com
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