Khaur | |
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Coordinates: 33°14′28″N72°16′4″E / 33.24111°N 72.26778°E [1] | |
Country | Pakistan |
Province | Punjab |
District | Attock |
Tehsil | Pindigheb |
Region | ghebi |
Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Khaur is a town and union council in Pindigheb Tehsil of Attock District in Punjab Province of Pakistan. [2]
The town is the first site of an oilfield in Punjab which operated from 1911 to the 1950s. The first commercial success came with the drilling of Khaur-1 by Pakistan Oilfields Limited in 1915, on a surface anticline in the Potwar Basin. Oil was discovered in sands in the lower part of the Miocene formation, and a total of 396 shallow wells were drilled in the field from 1915 to 1954. [3]