Shaybah Oil Field is located deep in Rub' Al-Khali, one of the world’s harshest and most remote environments. The locale may be brutal, but it comes with a big reward for Aramco. The field’s reserves are so vast that alone, it could deliver the entire world’s oil supply for more than 5 months. There was just one problem. After two decades of use, the crumbling runway at Shaybah Airport was threatening operations at the field. Aramco responded with a US$34 million project to replace the airport’s