To: Hawkmoon who wrote (195990 ) 8/8/2006 5:41:59 PM From: Brumar89 Respond to I don't believe that slant well story. From what I can see they didn't have wells close enough to the border to tap reserves in Iraq. Particularly because the charge was made back in 1990 when directional drilling wasn't as developed as now. Nowadays there are wells which hit geological targets as far as 6 miles from the wellhead.In August 1990, Kuwait’s crude oil production amounted to about 2 million barrels per day. Crude oil production and associated oil processing and storage facilities were operated out by the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), a subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC).[256] North Kuwait consisted of two major fields (Raudhatian and Sabriyah), with 316 wells and a production capability of 400,000 barrels per day. West Kuwait contained several minor fields that make up the two major fields Minagish and Umm Gudair. These fields consist of approximately 130 wells and produced 150,000 barrels per day. Southeast Kuwait contained the multi-reservoir Greater Burgan field, the second-largest oilfield in the world. There were 661 wells in southeast Kuwait and it produced 1.1 million barrels per day. Of the total 1,111 wells in these three areas, 980 were in production on August 1, 1990. Of the 900 wells in the Wahfra field, 350 were active and produced between 170,000 and 180,000 barrels per day. Half of Wafra’s production was transported through underground pipelines to a refinery at Mina Az Zawr, Saudi Arabia, which is owned and operated by Texaco for the benefit of Saudi Arabia. Part of the other half went by underground pipelines to the refinery at Mina Abd Allah, Kuwait, but was processed at the Mina al Ahmadi refinery. The rest was stored in tanks at Ahmadi town.[258] A map showing Kuwait’s major oil fields is presented in Figure 30. gulflink.osd.mil gulflink.osd.mil
