VOL. XL

No. 41

13-October-1997

SAUDI ARABIA-KUWAIT

Texaco Says Wafra's Eocene Reservoirs Have 9Bn Barrel of Oil In Place

In its 1996 Financial and Operational Supplement Texaco has confirmed earlierreports that the production of heavy Eocene crude from the Wafra field in theSaudi-Kuwaiti Partioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) was resumed in December 1996. Texaco said that,by using technologies already tested in the US and Indonesia, it expects to recover about50% of the liquids from the Eocene structure,...