In pictures: This is Max Steinke, the discoverer of oil in Saudi Arabia

ArabiaWeather.com - Sinan Khalaf - Max Steinke is one of the most prominent geologists who came to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the year 1936 AD to rule with their own hands the epic battle to search for oil in the vast deserts of the Kingdom.

This American man was credited, after God Almighty, for discovering one of the largest oil wells in the Kingdom, located in Dammam, which was known as “Dammam Well 7”, which turned the Kingdom into an oil country in the year 1938 AD.

The attached photos are archival photos published by the Aramco oil company of Max Steinke, the oil discoverer in Saudi Arabia.