VOL. XLIV
No 48
26-November-2001
SAUDIARABIA
SaudiAramco Discovers New Oil/Gas Field Close To Al-Ghawar
SaudiOil Minister Ali al-Naimi announced on 20 November that Saudi Aramco haddiscovered a new oil and gas field in the Eastern Province, 14km east of thesuper-giant al-Ghawar oilfield. He said drilling of the Jafin-1 well had begunlast June, and it was now test-flowing at around 1,100 b/d of Arab Super Lightcrude and 1.6mn cu ft/day (45,310 cu ms/d) of sweet gas. According to the SaudiPress...
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