Saudi Aramco is expanding its drilling rig fleet by 100 percent over a two-year period, going from 55 in 2004 to a planned 110 in 2006. The increase is to meet plans to drill several hundred wells in the next several years, part of the ambitious expansion of the company's crude oil and gas program. This is the most aggressive ramp-up of drilling activity in the history of the oil industry, according to a report of Saudi Aramco. --MORE 1202 Local Time 0902 GMT
