Platts - The Barrel: Saudi Arabia pledges to fill oil supply gap amid Libyan unrest

Seeing is believing. That was the first that thought came to my mind when I visited the onshore Khurais oil field in Saudi Arabia's vast desert this week. Located some 150 km (100 miles) southeast of the capital Riyadh, the Khurais oil field began pumping 1.2 million b/d in 2009, the largest single increment from any single oilfield in the kingdom's history.