Vision:
To achieve the technical competence to find and produce all the oil and natural gas resources in the Kingdom’s territories.

Mission
Creating an effective research and development environment for oil and natural gas exploration and production technologies through:
an R&D infrastructure with qualified professionals.
policies and procedures facilitating the collaboration between research institutes as well as universities and industries.
Localization and development of oil and natural gas exploration and production technologies to solve problems, improve quality, and reduce cost.

Strategic Goals

1. The following objectives were designed in order that the strategic vision and mission can be achieved by 2025.
2. Improved data availability, openness, visualization, and access for research including instant digital access to all acquired geological, geophysical and petroleum information
3. Improved quality and quantity of human resources through an increase in local Ph.D. holders in E&P disciplines by 1000 percent (or 1000)
4. Improved oil recovery to a rate of 70 percent and an increase in proven reserves of oil to 900 billion barrels (Aramco objective)
5. Reduced exploration and production cost of onshore barrels by 20 percent and offshore barrels by 50 percent
6. Improved efficiency of oil and natural gas exploration and drilling operations by cutting the time needed for land acquisition and drilling operations by 50 percent
7. Eradication of harmful emissions from Red Sea wells and significant reduction of emissions from onshore and gulf wells
8. Completion of required geological information for oil and gas upstream R&D as well as completion of missing petroleum geology information
9. Development and localization of technology services (i.e. software) for oil and gas to at least 50 percent

The performance measures were developed so that projects can be easily evaluated in regards to how they contribute to the strategic objectives.

Track

1. An advanced and integrated database with high end visualization and communication tools for oil and gas information:
   • Development of data storage, compression, and monitoring capabilities (i.e. database).
   • Capabilities in data format upgrade and adaptation to our needs (i.e. new data formats).
   • Development of analysis, visualization, and integration tools (i.e. user interface).
   • Improved data accessibility through better communication and structure (i.e. internet access).
   • Advancements in data openness and sharing systems (i.e. access regulations).
2. Completion of the petroleum geological information:
   • Mapping, modeling, and describing the sedimentary basement (i.e., improved gravity interpretation)
   • Better understanding and characterization of the petroleum systems including the source rock (i.e., seismic data interpretation).
   • Improved description of important and complicated formations including onaiyza formation (i.e., improved well information).
   • Improved fault and fracture description and direction in carbonate formations (i.e., azimuthal anisotropy).
   • Completion of the geological maps and their integration and coherency (i.e., remote sensing interpretation).
3. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR):
   • Improved injection and production systems in carbonate reservoir.
   • Determine the proper enhanced recovery methods for existing reservoirs.
   • Reduce water-oil ratio.
4. Reservoir modeling, monitoring and management:
   • Improved reservoir modeling and simulation (i.e. parallel simulation),modeling and simulation tools.
   • Enhanced reservoir monitoring and attributes extraction (i.e. 4-D seismics,deep diagnostics and sensing).
   • Enhancements in real-time and remote monitoring of changes in giant reservoirs (i.e. passive seismic, nanotechnology, wireless technology).
   • Improved information and attribute integration for reservoir simulation (i.e. well-seismic integration), modeling and simulation input data.
   • Fracture and fault detection and mapping in carbonate reservoir (i.e.azimuth anisotropy).
5. Improved oil and gas exploration success rates especially in the RubaiiAlkhali and the Red Sea:
   • Improved efficiency and quality of land acquisition (i.e., land streamers).
   • Solving near surface seismic problems (i.e., datuming and inversion).
   • Solving seismic multiple related problems (i.e., full waveform inversion).
   • Improved seismic imaging (i.e., prestack depth migration).
   • Development of unconventional methods for exploration and data integration (i.e., remote sensing).
6. Oil and natural gas production:
   • Solving the problem of gas condensate in producing wells.
   • Oil and gas reservoir stimulation.
   • Production free of pollutants.
7. Improved drilling operations (quality and efficiency):
   • Reduce drilling cost and drilling completion through developing efficient drilling systems (i.e., new cutting methods and drilling fluids).
   • Complete drilling and consequences monitoring systems (i.e., drilling sensors and advanced drilling components).
   • Improved drilling in deep water and through formations in old and hard layers (i.e., ultra extended reach drilling).
   • Improved drilling in high temperature, high pressure and high productivity formations.
8. Protecting the environment:
   • Improved monitoring systems and methods for emission from wells (i.e.,water real-time sensors).
   • Enhanced production standards to avoid emission.
   • Improved carbon dioxide capture, and sequestration.
   • Production and injection related hazard assessment (i.e., passive seismic,InSAR).

Email:oil.npst@ksu.edu.sa
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