VOL. XXXIX

No. 33

13-May-1996

YEMEN

British Gas Drills Two Dry Wells In Socotra

British Gas has drilled two dry exploration wells in the 17,700-sq. km. area offshore from the island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea, according to Mr. Atul Chandra, Managing Director of India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), whose firm farmed in with British Gas last January. Mr. Chandra told the Yemen Times on 22 April that the "two wells drilled around Socotra have been dry," adding that even...