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The Oil Drum calls our attention to Satellite O'er the Desert, a website devoted to trying to interpret Google satellite images from Saudi Arabia.


Satellite O'er the Desert is produced by someone calling himself "Joules Burn" (who says scientists lack a sense of humor)?

JB's contribution is to note that the satellite images from Google Earth allow us to identify the precise location of individual wells in the Arabian Desert.

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Let me end by quoting a couple of Burn's own conclusions from this effort:


given the observed fact that virtually all of Uthmaniyah and 'Ain Dar have been filled in, there is considerably less room for further development to maintain current production rates.

it can't last long at historical production rates for this part of Ghawar.