VOL. XLIV

No 48

26-November-2001

SAUDI ARABIA

Halliburton Awarded $140Mn QatifOilfield Development Contract

Dallas-based Halliburton announcedon 14 November that it had won a contract worth $140mn from Saudi Aramco toprovide services for the Qatif onshore/offshore oilfield development projectnorth of Dhahran in eastern Saudi Arabia. A company statement said the initialscope of the three-year project to drill producing oil and water wells willinclude using a wide range of technologies, such as...