(Image from the Saudi Embassy)From Forbes:
What does a company making $250 billion a year do for an encore?
The nerve center of Saudi Aramco is tucked in a windowless, high-security room in the center of its massive headquarters compound in Dhahran. To get there you pass through three checkpoints manned by armed guards, as well as a handful of X-ray machines and electronic turnstiles. Called the Operations Coordination Center, it features a curved wall 12 feet high and 240 feet long covered with a digital screen of 200 million pixels. Maps and schematics depict the real-time volumes of crude oil and natural gas wending their way from Aramco's 102 fields through 48 gas-oil separators and 11,000 miles of pipelines into 7 refineries and chemical plants, 19 tank farms and 3 terminals feeding a dozen waiting supertankers.
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My Comment: The money quote is the following .... "The Saudis are not unhappy to see lower oil prices squeezing Iran," says George Friedman, chief executive of the Austin, Tex. intelligence outfit Stratfor. "They just don't want prices to get low enough that it forces Iran to do something crazy."