Train back to Karachi.
After leaving Arabia, Cecil went on to India (now West Pakistan). He wrote ["Geophysics in the Affairs of Man", Bates, Gaskell and Rice. p411-412"], "The well Abu Hadrya Number One was giving indications it would be a dry hole. Everyone in California-Arabian Standard Oil Company's Production Department wanted to abandon the well and, at the same time, use this as a good reason for getting rid of the misleading geophysicists. However, the drilling superintendent had a peculiar feeling, based on his imagined smell of sulphur in the returning mud, that he might strike some new and deper oil-producing zone. So it was agreed that he continue drilling until he either struck basement or ran out of drill stem or casing.
This was the unhappy situation when I left for Karachi, India. While we were together visiting a seismic party, an overnight train ride up the Indus River valley, George received two cablegrams --- one from San Francisco and the other from Dhahran. San Francisco said to return to Saudi Arabia to make a post-mortem study moaning about the loss of $1.5 million on the dry hole at Abu Hadrya. The other cablegram from Dhahran by Chief Geologist, Max Steineke reported that Abu Hadrya had just struck oil at a depth of 10,200 feet and at a rate of 15,000 barrels per day. My next remark was to suggest that this was a very appropriate time to order up a cold beer!"
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