VOL. XXXI

NO. 19

15-FEBRUARY-1988

NORTH YEMEN

Dry Wildcats for Hunt and Exxon in New Concessions

MEES understands that both Hunt Oil Company and Exxon have come up with drywildcat wells in their concessions outside the Marib-Jawf area. The Yemen HuntOil Company has now drilled two dry holes in its 13,000 sq. kms. offshore concession in the Red Sea which it acquired in July 1985.Earlier last year theFrench firm Elf-Aquitaine, in a joint venture agreement with Hunt, drilled a drywildcat at...