VOL. XLI

No. 10

9-March-1998

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Aramco Announces Two Gas Discoveries

Saudi Aramco has made two natural gas discoveries with a combined production capacityof 23.5mn cubic feet daily (cfd) of sweet gas, the Saudi Minister of Petroleum and MineralResources, Mr. Ali al-Naimi announced last week. The first field, al-Wadhihi, located nearKhurais, yielded 16.7mn cfd and the second field, Shamah, yielded 6.8mn cfd.

Mr. Naimi said that Saudi Aramco was now implementing a major project to...