Over the past year, ANPERC has placed a great deal of effort and time to building and equipping a world-class petroleum and geoscience research laboratory facility. Although the center continues to add unique new equipment each day to complete the labs, principle research investigations have already begun in wide range of areas. Among these is the investigation of rock properties from oil and gas reservoirs in the Kingdom and throughout the Middle East. The availability of rock and core material is a critical prerequisite for the success of these research efforts.

Recently, a team from the center, including Professor Volker Vahrenkamp, Senior Research Scientist Dr. Thomas Finkbeiner and Research Scientist Dr. Viswasanthi Chandra, traveled to an area outside of Riyadh to obtain core samples from a reservoir called the Arab-D.

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