VOL. XXXVI

NO. 15

11-JANUARY-1993

SAUDI ARABIA

Nimir Petroleum/Shell Sign for Malta Acreage

MEES learns that the Saudi-owned Nimir Petroleum Company (NPC), which iscurrently developing the Shabwa oilfields in Block No. 4 in Yemen and hasalready acquired petroleum interests in Russia's Sakhalin Island as well asRumania (MEES, 30 November and 7 December 1992), has now expanded itsinternational operations still further by signing on 5 January, together withShell on a 50-50 partnership basis, a...