VOL. XXXIV

NO. 8

26-NOVEMBER-1990

Oman

PDO Awards French Group Drilling Contract for the Lekhwair

Oilfield Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has awarded a FF1bn ($200mn)contract to Forasol-Foramer of France for the drilling of a total of 173production and water injection wells at the Lekhwair oilfield in northeast Oman.The contract will be carried out, beginning in August 1991, through a localfirm, the National Company for Drilling and Services which is jointly owned byForasol and the Omani Galfar...