VOL. XXXVI

NO. 6

9-NOVEMBER-1992

YEMEN

Yemen Assigns Two New Offshore Tracts for E & P

The Yemeni Ministry of Oil and Minerals has signed memoranda of understandingfor two new exploration deals on production sharing terms, both of them foroffshore acreage. The 6,954-sq. km. Mukalla-Saihut offshore Block No. 15 in theGulf of Aden was awarded to the Omani firm Al Saad Al Qawi Al Omani for Drillingand Well Evaluation Company, while a 17,500-sq. km. block near Socotra Islandhas been assigned to...