History of Oil of Saudi Arabia

King Abdulaziz knew the importance of oil when

• The Allied forces who had an adequate oil supply won World War I

• he needed money

vIn May 1923, King Abdulaziz met with ....................., a mining engineer and with him an agreement to search for oil.

• Karl Twitchell

• Frank Holmes

During the 1920s, there was plenty of oil available in America, and petroleum and oil companies were not convinced that there was oil in Saudi Arabia

• true

• false

The number of pilgrims had dropped from around 100,000 a year to fewer than .........................

• 20,000

• 40,000

On February 1931, King Abdulaziz came to an agreement with ........................., an American tycoon.

• Charles Crane

• Karl Twitchell

The agreement allowed one of Crane's engineers, Karl Twitchell, to search for ...................... in Arabia.

• Oil and gas

• artesian wells

In 1933, the agreement with SOCAL was the beginning of the search for oil in Saudi Arabia.

• True

• False

Saudi Arabia the world's largest oil producer' owning ............... of the world's oil.

• one-third

• one-quarter

................ from the Ujman tribe was an expert in cross-desert navigation and he became invaluable to the geologists.

• Khamis ibn Rimthan

• Abdullah Sulaiyman

Ghawar is the .................. oil deposit in the world.

• largest

• smallest