Energy Exhibit
Interactive oil science center on the field where the kingdom's first commercial oil was struck.
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This guide to the Energy Exhibit in Dhahran, near Dammam, starts with a plain capped wellhead a mile away and goes back to the late nineteen thirties, when this coast was a string of small fishing settlements. It follows American geologist Max Steineke and a company in California running short on patience after one dry well after another. Best heard outside the exhibit building, which stands on the same oil field.
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