VOL. XXXI

NO. 38

27-JUNE-1988

QATAR

Development Drilling for North Field Gas Project to Begin in August

MEES learns that development drilling for Qatar's giant North Field GasProject is due to begin in August and that the wellhead platform contractors -the Abu Dhabi-based National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) - loaded on20 June two platforms to be towed to the drilling sites located at some 80kms. off the Qatari coast. The first development well, which will be drilled ina water depth of...