Oil production was not affected by the virus which struck on 15 August, Saudi Aramco added.
Ras Tanura, a tiny finger in the Persian Gulf, already has a 550, 000-barrel-per-day refinery, Aramco's biggest.
Exxon is one-twentieth the size of Saudi Aramco, which is a Saudi oil company.
Aramco, the Saudi state oil company, sucks up nearly 10% of the country's energy output.
The cyber- assault on Aramco also only hit desktop computers rather than operational plant and machinery.
Her boss took her aside and explained that her systems were linked to Aramco's strategic decision making.
Aramco can quench its gargantuan thirst for development: It's easily the most profitable company on the planet.
No corporate attacks so far appear to have been as big as the one on Saudi Aramco.
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Aramco still has not recovered from Shamoon, which thankfully is not thought to have affected oilfield operations.
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"I think I was the first lady before the board, at least from the Aramco side, " she says.
At first blush, it seems kind of odd that Aramco would even bother with expanding Shaybah right now.
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Three years ago Aramco approached Dow to jointly build a petrochemicals plant at Rabigh, on the west coast.
Mexico's Pemex and, the biggest of them all, Saudi Arabia's Saudi Aramco, which has 10 times Exxon's reserves.
A. at Stanford University two summers ago when she got an urgent call from Saudi Aramco headquarters in Dhahran.
About 30, 000 workstation computers are back online at Saudi Aramco after a virus hit the world's largest oil producer.
Aramco, the national oil company where she was working as a computer-security consultant at the time, wasn't pleased, either.
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Neither RasGas nor Aramco has released details of which virus penetrated its networks.
Mr. Saleri, president and CEO of Quantum Reservoir Impact in Houston, was formerly head of reservoir management for Saudi Aramco.
In 2004 Aramco launched a plan to boost production from 9 million barrels a day to 12 million by 2009.
But doing so would be a long-term challenge and delivering that much might even necessitate Saudi Aramco dipping into storage.
Aramco already has proved capable of increasing production, still with spare capacity of a couple of million barrels per day.
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Policy is to maintain 2 million bpd of production capacity that Saudi Aramco can turn on at nearly a moment's notice.
In April Saudi Aramco cut its output by 350, 000 bpd to 9.1 million bpd because there wasn't enough demand for the oil.
The couple met in 2010 when they were both working for Aramco.
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Computer systems at energy firm RasGas have been taken offline by a computer virus only days after a similar attack on oil giant Aramco.
But after its privatization last year, the company, now 40% owned by Saudi Arabia's Aramco and 20% by the public, left such baggage behind.
The work is part of a joint venture led by Shell (40% stake), Saudi Aramco and Total, which will explore 81, 000 square miles of desert.
Among other assignments, Al-Tunisi launched Aramco's first commodity forecasts--which she broached, with trepidation, before a dozen directors, including Chairman Ali Al-Naimi and President Abdallah Jum'ah.
The report comes only days after Saudi Arabia's Aramco revealed it had completed a clean-up operation after a virus knocked out 30, 000 of its computers.
Saudi Aramco has not said whether this was the malware involved.
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