VOL. XXX

N0. 10

15-DECEMBER-1986

SOUTH YEMEN

USSR Strikes Oil at Shabwa

MEES learns that the Soviet firm Technoexport has recently made an oildiscovery at Shabwa in the western part of South Yemen and that the agreementsigned on 1 December between the two states (MEES, 8 December) will result inthe Soviet company drilling more wells and conducting further tests to determinethe availability of the oil in commercial quantities. The crude oil discoveredis understood to be very light and with a low...