Giant oilfield to raise Saudi output

By Andrew Walker Business correspondent, BBC World Service, Khurais, Saudi Arabia Workers brave the heat to get the project finished in time The desert sun is beating down. The temperature is 44 degrees Celsius. And yet there are men working in the baking heat. Not all that energetically, perhaps, but they are working nonetheless. For them, there is no escaping on board the visiting air-conditioned bus. Instead, simple shelters provide scant, yet welcome, relief. Welcome to Khurais in the Saudi Arabian desert, 160 kilometres east of the capital Riyadh. It is described by the national oil company, Saudi Aramco, as the largest oilfield development in the history of the industry, containing 27 billion barrels of oil.