Oil Well 7
Historic wellhead of the kingdom's first commercial oil strike, flowing from 1938 until 1982.
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This guide to Oil Well 7 in Dhahran, on the edge of Dammam, goes back to the nineteen thirties, when this coast was a string of fishing and pearling settlements and American geologists had drilled six disappointing holes into the hill. It follows chief geologist Max Steineke and his bet on a seventh, deeper well, and the patience of a company in San Francisco running out. Best heard standing at the roadside above the wellhead on Dallah Road.
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