VOL. XLIII

No. 30

24-July-2000

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Aramco Announces New Gas/Condensate Discovery

Saudi Arabias Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi announced on 19 July that Saudi Aramco had discovered a new gas/condensate field 100km west of the Haradh gasfield in the kingdoms Eastern Province. He said the discovery well, al-Ghazal-1, flowed 17mn cu ft/day of natural gas and 2,500 b/d of condensate from layers between 13,400ft and 13,660ft, adding that Saudi Aramco planned to conduct more evaluations of...