This paper discusses the oil and gas prospects in the Yemeni sector of the Rub al Khali basin on the basis of a new look to the area.

根据新资料和新观察讨论了鲁卜哈利盆地也门区的油气远景。

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The lines of wind-sculpted sand are characteristic of immense sand deserts, or sand seas, and the Rub' al Khali is the largest desert of this type in the world.

在一些广袤的沙漠或沙海里常常有这种被风雕刻的痕迹，而鲁卜哈利沙漠是这类沙漠中面积最大的。

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Total left Rub al-Khali early last year, after its program there ran far over its budget and its teams drilled three wells that came up dry.

去年早期Total那儿的计划远远超出它的本钱，它的小组挖的3个井开始变干，于是Total 离开了障碍“al-Khali”。

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In mid-July Shell began the first of seven wildcat wells it will drill this year in the Kingdom's Rub al-Khali, a desert known as the Empty Quarter (a name Van der Veer hopes is merely metaphorical).

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