This paper will deal primarily with the motor vehicle operation phase of oil exploration and oil field development work by the Arabian American Oil Company in the desert terrain area of Saudi Arabia. This work has been in progress at an ever increasing rate since the fall of 1933. During that time the Company has purchased over 6500 vehicles of which about 3500 are still in operation. Practically all of these vehicles were specially designed for off-road operation or have been extensively modified to fit them for such work. The program has demanded many hundreds of million vehicle miles of operation over desert trails and in completely off-road cross-country travel. During the past few years, about two hundred miles of improved asphalt surface roads have been built and we have acquired valuable experience in on-road operation with vehicles designed primarily for off-road work. Very little formal controlled research has been undertaken, but we have nevertheless made steady progress in the development and perfection of off-road vehicles and tires. This progress is the result of massive fleet size, cut-and-try methods. In spite of this apparently haphazard method, this relatively massive operation has given us a great quantity of accurate data.


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    Titel :

    Motor Vehicle Operation in Saudi Arabia


    Beteiligte:
    R. C. Kerr (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1956


    Format / Umfang :

    12 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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