al shaybah oil field, via heatingoil.com
Sounds crazy, that’s what the place is made of. Who would think that Saudi Arabia could be running out of sand? Yet the Kingdom has halted exports of the stuff, a major component of concrete, and it is causing problems in Bahrain and other countries that depend on imports of high quality Saudi sand.
Evidently the stuff is in the wrong place; Stuart Burns in MetalMiner reports that “Saudi Arabia has more sand than oil but unlike it’s oil, the sand and gravel are predominantly in rather inaccessible areas and th…Read the full story on TreeHugger
