VOL. XXXIV

NO. 20

18-FEBRUARY-1991

Saudi Arabia

Mine Hits Platform at Zuluf Field

An allied military communique issued on 8 February said that a floating mine had hit a platform at the Saudi offshore Zuluf oilfield and caused a slight damage. The Zuluf field is located midway between the Safaniyah and Marjan fields in the most northerly part of Saudi territorial waters in the northern Gulf. The communique said that the mine was believed to have been planted by Iraq and was one of five...