wants to be recognised for it efforts to protect the delicate marine coastal ecosystem of Manifa Bay, the site of its biggest ever offshore oil project. That shows just what an environmental hot potato the development of the 10 billion barrel Manifa heavy-oil field is likely to become. "Please write about what we are doing for the environment," Mohammed al Abdulkarim, the Manifa project manager for Aramco, pleaded with reporters on the sidelines of the oil conference in Abu Dhabi this week. Everything was going fine with the project, he said, while reminding us that Manifa would produce "Arabian heavy crude" - not at all like the nasty tar-like gunk pumped in some other parts of the world.