VOL. XXXIII

NO. 28

16-APRIL-1990

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco Announces another Light Crude Discovery in CentralProvince

The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) has discovered a new oil-fieldproducing sweet light crude located east of Hawtah and southeast of Riyadh, theSaudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Mr. Hisham Nazer, announcedon 10 April. The discovery well - Naeem-1 - was spudded on 14 February andtested at a rate of 2,800 b/d of 42.4 API sweet oil with little or no sulfur...