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Dammam No. 7; Country: Saudi Arabia: Region: Eastern Province: Location: Dhahran (Dammam metropolitan area): Coordinates: 1]: Operator: Saudi Aramco: Field history; Discovery: 1938: Start of development: 1946: Start of production: 1949: Abandonment: 1982: Production; Peak of production (oil): 1,600 barrels per day (~100,000 t/a): Dammam No. 7 also known as "Prosperity Well," [2] is an oil well ...
Geologist Thomas Barger, later Aramco’s CEO (1961–1969), documented the campaign’s high stakes in personal correspondence, noting that failure would undermine confidence in regional exploration. [9] The Abu Hadriya well reached depths exceeding 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) by early 1940—twice the depth of Dammam No. 7—but yielded no oil ...
He was chief geologist at California-Arabian Standard Oil Co. (CASOC) from 1936 until 1950 (by which time CASOC had become Aramco). His efforts, and persistence through repeated setbacks, led to the first discovery of oil in commercial quantities in Saudi Arabia, which took place at the well known as "Dammam No. 7" in March 1938.
Dammam No. 7 struck oil in 1938, becoming the first commercial oil well in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco's origins trace to the oil shortages of World War I and the exclusion of American companies from Mesopotamia by the United Kingdom and France under the San Remo Petroleum Agreement of 1920. [16]
On Saudi Aramco’s campus at the edge of the Arabian Gulf, the vast scale of the world’s biggest oil producer is on stark display. In one building, a curved monitor 140 feet long wraps around a ...
Saudi Aramco CEO says it’s time to abandon the ‘fantasy’ of phasing out oil because the $9.5 trillion energy transition is on a ‘road to nowhere’ Eleanor Pringle March 19, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Saudi state-run oil giant Aramco on Monday reported $30 billion in second quarter profit, a nearly 40% decline from the same period the previous year that it attributed to lower oil prices. In an ...
The growth of the oil industry in the region had a similar impact on the small fishing villages of Dammam and Khobar. Within two decades of the discovery of oil, the huts of the fishermen that crowded the shore, which constituted the only permanent dwellings in the area, had given way to concrete buildings and modern housing, highways and streets.