VOL. XXXIV

NO. 39

1-JULY-1991

Kuwait

Kuwait Resumes Exports of Crude Oil and Products

On 19 June the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) announced that it had madeits first sale of products, 63,000 tons of naphtha which was held in storage atMina al-Ahmadi, to Japan's Nissho-Iwai Corporation. The naphtha was transportedaboard the US-flagged Kuwait Oil Tanker Company vessel Chesapeake City (ex-UmmMatrabah).

KPC also made its first crude oil shipment on 19 June, when a tanker loadedwith 781,000...