VOL. XXXI

NO. 5

9-NOVEMBER-1987

NORTH YEMEN

Hunt to Drill Offshore Wildcat in North Yemen

Hunt Oil Company has decided to go ahead in December with the drilling of asecond well in its offshore concession in the Red Sea, MEES understands. Earlierthis year the French firm Elf-Aquitaine, in a joint venture agreement with Hunt,drilled a dry hole near Salif to a depth of 6,100 ft. but has since quit thepartnership over differences as to the timing of the drilling of a second well(MEES, 3 August). It...