Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLIX

No 7

13-February-2006

OMAN

PDO Announces Discovery Of Four Oilfields

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) on 4 February announced the discovery of four oilfields two in the north at Ufuq and Dafiq, and two in the south at Sakhiya-South West and Mamour. The company said the discovery of Ufuq and Dafiq, near the Lekhwair oilfield, validated the extension of the productive Upper Shua'iba reservoir rock formation that PDOs geologists and geophysicists had proposed...