VOL. XXXVI

NO. 10

7-DECEMBER-1992

SAUDI ARABIA

Nimir Petroleum Produces 5,000 b/d from Sakhalin Field

The Saudi-owned Nimir Petroleum Company (NPC) - which is currently developingthe Shabwa oilfields in Block No. 4 in Yemen - at the end of October startedproducing 5,000 b/d of crude oil from a field on Sakhalin Island in EasternRussia, according to NPC's President and Managing Director, Dr. Abdallah Basodan.In an interview with the new Saudi daily al-Eqtisadiah of 2 December, Dr.Basodan said that...