Khaur
Khaur | |
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  Khaur | |
| Coordinates: 33°14′28″N 72°16′4″E / 33.24111°N 72.26778°E[1] | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Punjab |
| District | Attock |
| Tehsil | Pindigheb |
| Region | Chhachh |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Khaur is a town and union council in Pindigheb Tehsil of Attock District in Punjab Province of Pakistan.[2]
Community
The major tribes of town are Kahut, Chauhan, Zeldar, Awan, Budhwaal and Shipraal while main language is Potwari dialect of Punjabi, and most of the population is Sunni Muslim.[3]
Khaur Oil Field
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.[4]
References
- ^ Maps, Weather, and Airports for Khaur, Pakistan. Fallingrain.com. Retrieved on 2017-01-21.
- ^ "Khaur". Khaur. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
- ^ A Gazetteer of Attock District, 1931, Part A.
- ^ World Oil (weekly magazine). Gulf Publishing Company. March 1947. p. 11 and 12. Retrieved 17 September 2020.