VOL. XLIII

No. 43

23-OCTOBER-2000

YEMEN

Vintage Drills Second Exploration Well In Yemens S-1 Damis Block

Vintage Petroleum of Tulsa, Oklahoma announced on 12 October that it had completed testing Harmel-1, the second of four exploration wells in the S-1 Damis Block in central Yemen (see map in MEES 31 May 1999). Three separate zones previously untested in the region were swab-tested at a combined rate of 500 b/d of oil after acid stimulation. The company says a longer-term production test using a...