VOL. XLIV

No 38

17-September-2001

OMAN

Fire At Test Oil Well Extinguished

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)announced on 9 September that a fire which broke out at the Zauliyah-16 testoil well 120km northwest of Haima in central Oman on 7 August (MEES, 20 August) had been brought undercontrol. The operation to cap and kill the well was successfully completed on8 September, a PDO statement said, after a months preparatory work involvingthe fabrication and procurement of fit-for-purpose equipment,...