VOL. XLI

No. 29

20-July-1998

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Aramco Brings Land Rig Fire Under Control

Saudi Aramco announced on 10 July that it had brought under control a blowout and fireat its Uthmaniyah Well No. 1811. The company said that the blowout resulted from a gasleak at a land rig operated by one of the contractors and added that the well did notaffect the company's activities because it was still at the drilling stage. As reported inlast week's MEES, Santa Fe International Corporation announced...