VOL. XLVII

No 13

29-March-2004

SAUDI ARABIA

New Gas/Condensate Discovery In Shaybah Field

Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi announced on 21 March that Saudi Aramco had made a new natural gas/condensate discovery in the Shaybah field in the eastern region of the kingdom around 600km southeast of Dhahran and 800km southeast of Riyadh. The Shaybah-700 well was drilled to the Arab C reservoir (7,815ft) and on 16 March tested at 20mn cu ft/day of natural gas and 650 b/d of condensate. The minister said...