Each Monday a new and interesting tidbit of Saudi Arabian information will be posted.Monday, January 30The Search for Oil
In 1930 King Abdul Aziz invited a wealthy American businessman and philanthropist, Charles R. Crane, to visit the Kingdom. In the course of Crane's visit, it was agreed that he should send a mining engineer to conduct a survey of Saudi Arabia to assess the Kingdom's water, mineral and oil resources. A key finding was that the geological formations in eastern region around Dhahran strongly indicated the presence of oil. Initial exploration produced disappointing results but in 1935 a well drilled in Dhahran found indications of oil in commercial quantities.
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