Part 4. "The Father of Sandflies," بقيق In September of 1939 Great Britain declared war on Germany. It was an unheralded event in Saudi Arabia as work progressed on the development of Dammam Dome and Max Steinike carried on with his geological work in the Eastern Province. Italy became an ally of Germany in 1940 and Benito Mussolini, smitten and somewhat envious of Hitler's power, took it upon himself to bomb the refinery in Bharain, a primary source of oil for the British navy. From an...

Elephant Rock (Jabal AlFil ) At Alula; جبل الفيل Part 3; Dammam No. 12; حريق After the success of the No. 7 well at Dammam, CASOC stepped way out on the structure and found the oil-water contact in the Arab C zone; the well flowed 5,000 BWPD like an artesian well. It was temporarily shut in and the 9, 10 and 11 wells all made good oil producers up-structure. Two more skid-mounted drilling rigs were shipped from Bahrain, more men arrived from the States to manage them, both Halliburton...

Part 2 The Prophecy Well, ٧بئر رقم Max Steinike, left, proved very persuasive in SOCAL's headquarters in San Franciso the summer of 1937. He'd brought with him from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia revised maps, rock samples, fossils, little bottles of Dammam oil from the No. 1 well and laid his beliefs all out to the Board He needed more time to be sure but he didn't have that time so he put his neck on the chopping block. The goal was deeper Arab Zone carbonates, the last hope. Steinike's...