Khurais Airport is a small airport in the oil complex of

Khurais Khurais oil field ( ar, حقل خريص) is an oil field in Saudi Arabia that went online on June 10, 2009, adjacent to the world's largest, the Ghawar trend. The Khurais field, with an area of 2,890 km2 and 127 km long, is located abo ...

in the Eastern Province of

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

. The airport occupies an area of 1.2 km² next to the residential camp. It has replaced the previous Khurais Airport (old).

Overview

Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia, owns and operate the airport providing logistic support to the remote oil complex. Using

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and

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aircraft, the company operates scheduled flights to Dammam for the headquarters in

Dhahran Dhahran ( ar, الظهران, ''Al-Dhahran'') is a city located in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. With a total population of 240,742 as of 2021, it is a major administrative center for the Saudi oil industry. Together with the nearby citi ...

Facilities

The airport is equipped with one runway, 2,430 meters long and 30 meters wide. 7 parking/gates can be found there in addition to a helipad.

References

External links

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