Economy Saudi Arabia's Aramco, the world's largest energy company, has discovered a new gas field in the Red Sea, 26km north-west of the port of Daba, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday quoting the oil minister. Gas flowed at the rate of 10m cubic feet a day at a test well at the depth of 17,700 ft, Ali al-Naimi was quoted as saying. Naimi said more wells would be drilled in order to evaluate the size of the field. More from Arabian Business Thousands of Lebanese school teachers and civil servants have begun a one-day strike to press the government and Cabinet to implement a long-awaited salary scale. Most private and public schools in the country will close as a result of the strikes waged by teachers, demonstration organizers and the Union Coordination Committee said. “The general strike would be observed in all public and private schools, high
