The Empty Quarter?

“Well I am now getting into Twilight in the Desert, and, while it would be wrong to describe it as totally dispassionate, it is a well written and relatively easy text to understand and enjoy, so far. This is going to become a fairly controversial subject before long, since the raw numbers are not getting any better and there are going to be some enemies generated. Historically to motivate the nation, there has had to be an enemy.

This may very well, in the intermediate term, become the Saudi family or the Arabian nation.

The picture that I have posted tonight is from the presentation that the Saudi Oil Ministry made to counter Matt Simmons presentation to the CSIS in 2004. What it shows is that all the exploratory wells that have been drilled have concentrated in the North East corner of the country where the oil companies have found a significant number of very large fields. So far they have not explored that much in what, for even more reasons, is referred to as