http://www.geoexpro.com/rss/Middle_East_headlines.xmlThis newsfeed has been automatically generated by GEO Exproen-gb13 May 2012Copyright: (C) http://www.GEOExpro.comSecond only to Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar, the supergiant Burgan field in Kuwait was discovered by a series of wells drilled during 1938-1952. Sitting on a huge structural anticline and occupying an area of 780 km2, the Cretaceous reservoirs of the Great Burgan field still account for most of Kuwait’s oil.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Great_Burgan_Field_Kuwait/e3fdc547.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Great_Burgan_Field_Kuwait/e3fdc547.aspxSun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT “We climbed for most of that day, conquering step by step the Morvarid Pass, only to drop down again, having reached the top; and as evening fell we came down on the lovely valley of Deh Diz, with its single sentinel poplar and a ruined castle in the distance, and the long ridge of the snowy Kuh-e Mangasht beyond. Our camping-place this time was in an orchard of pomegranates, beside a clear mountain stream, on a grassy terrace strewn with rocks and boulders.” Vita Sackville-West, Twelve Days in Persia: Across the Mountains with Bakhtiari Tribe (1928)http://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Zagros_Uplift/6011a2e4.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Zagros_Uplift/6011a2e4.aspxFri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT The much-vaunted Arab Spring, which has brought new life to the Libyan oil industry, where production is reportedly already nearly back to pre-revolution volumes, is having a less satisfactory impression on the business elsewhere in the Middle East.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Force_Majeure_in_Syria/3efe856c.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Force_Majeure_in_Syria/3efe856c.aspxTue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Middle East plays a pivotal role in the oil industry, and so GEO 2012, the 10th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition, promises to be an exciting event, with a wide selection of current research and technology from both new and traditional areas of petroleum geoscience. http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Shaping_the_Future_of_Geoscience_in_the_Middle_East/2d9b6c77.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Shaping_the_Future_of_Geoscience_in_the_Middle_East/2d9b6c77.aspxMon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Middle east has been a cornerstone of the oil and gas industry for over a hundred years.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/All_Eyes_on_the_Middle_East/5f6f225c.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/All_Eyes_on_the_Middle_East/5f6f225c.aspxMon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Iran holds about a tenth of the world’s proven reserves of oil and 16% of the gas, and is the fifth largest oil exporter. Here we review the country’s oil and gas fields and reservoirs, particularly in the prolific south-west.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Persia_Land_of_Black_Gold/e7e95f74.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Persia_Land_of_Black_Gold/e7e95f74.aspxSun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT CNPC becomes first international player to secure Afghanistan acreage.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Afghanistan_Taking_Off/04c39c7f.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Afghanistan_Taking_Off/04c39c7f.aspxSun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT As the United Arab Emirates celebrates its 40th anniversary, we take a look at the making of modern Dubai.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/From_Pirates_to_Prada/f108e459.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/From_Pirates_to_Prada/f108e459.aspxThu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Where in the world can you still find undrilled billion barrel prospects? Iraqi Kurdistan is one answer. But what is it like to work in an area thought by many to be a war zone?http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Kurdistan_Safe_and_Secure_with_Billion_Barrel_Prospects/0b73975b.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Kurdistan_Safe_and_Secure_with_Billion_Barrel_Prospects/0b73975b.aspxThu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT Despite Yemen’s modest and, as yet not fully explored, oil resources, the country has shown an impressive progress in the business. Since the preliminary geological studies started in the eighties, Yemen has managed to attract significant international interests in oil exploration and field development. Yemen is considered a newcomer in the world of petroleum, but the operating companies predict a promising future, based on their in-house studies and estimates.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Yemen_for_the_smaller_players/8bf7429e.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Yemen_for_the_smaller_players/8bf7429e.aspxSat, 13 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT