Khurais Airport (old) is a small airport near 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 a small area of 0.28 km² south of the new complex.

Overview

Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco ( ar, أرامكو السعودية '), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company) or simply Aramco, is a Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran. , it is one of ...

, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia, owns and used to operate the airport providing logistic support to the remote oil complex. However airport has been abandoned for a long time since the old complex was demolished and a new airport (

Khurais Airport Khurais Airport is a small airport in the oil complex of Khurais in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. The airport occupies an area of 1.2 km2 next to the residential camp. It has replaced the previous Khurais Airport (old). Overview S ...

) was built next to the newly established complex as part of the Khurais Project

Facilities

The airport has poor infrastructure as it is equipped with one old runway, 1,870 meters long and 30 meters wide without taxiways or terminals. A small area of 2,200 m² can be found between the runway and the entrance of the airfield for aircraft parking/movement.

References

External links

"OEKR - Khurais Airport , SkyVector"
''web.archive.org''. 22 December 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2023. {{authority control Khurais oil field Airports in Saudi Arabia