Khaur

Khaur is a town and union council in Pindigheb Tehsil of Attock District in Punjab Province of Pakistan.[1]

Khaur
Union Council
Khaur
Coordinates: 33°14′28″N 72°16′4″E / 33.24111°N 72.26778°E / 33.24111; 72.26778[2]
Country Pakistan
Province Punjab
District Attock
Tehsil Pindigheb
Region Chhachh
Time zone UTC+5 (PST)

Community

The major tribes of town are Kahut, Chauhan Awan 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 oilfield in Punjab which operated from 1911 to 1950s. The first commercial success came with the drilling of Khaur-1 by Pakistan Oilfields Limited in 1915, on a surface anti-cline 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

  1. ↑ "Khaur". Khaur. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  2. ↑ Maps, Weather, and Airports for Khaur, Pakistan. Fallingrain.com. Retrieved on 2017-01-21.
  3. ↑ A Gazetteer of Attock District 1931 Part A
  4. ↑ World oil. Gulf Publishing Company. March 1947. p. 12. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

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