The 1977 annual review of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco), published as a bilingual Arabic and English volume. The report covers Aramco's key operations and achievements during 1977, including: record crude oil production averaging 8,016,862 barrels per day — a 19 percent increase over the previous high — with total production surpassing 30 billion barrels since commercial operations began in 1938; natural gas liquids production of 78.9 million barrels; Saudi Arabia's proved and probable oil reserves standing at 110.4 and 177.6 billion barrels respectively; discovery of a new gas field at Suhul in Rub' al-Khali and two new oil-bearing reservoirs in the offshore Marjan field; significant progress on three major development programmes: crude oil production capacity expansion, the Saudi Arab Government's Gas Gathering and Processing System, and the Saudi Consolidated Electric Company's power generation and distribution programme in the Eastern Province; workforce increase of over 27 percent to approximately 25,500 employees, with nearly 46 percent of supervisory positions held by Saudi Arabs; and construction of a new storage tank at Juʿaymah.