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...

جبل أم الرؤوس Part 1 The Search Areas that peaked the interest of oil finders in the early 1900's were mostly all about hydrocarbon seeps that bubbled to the surface. So it was in the Dammam Pennisula of Eastern Saudi Arabia, less than a half mile from the Arabia Gulf. Dammam was a vast country of desolate. lifeless sand that contained great rock outcrops that rose a thousand feet above sea level and in places sometimes oozed thick tar at their roots. Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), a...