VOL. XXXIII

NO. 9

4-DECEMBER-1989

The Outlook for the UAE and Kuwait

Now that the UAE and Kuwait - previously in tandem in the quest for quotareadjustment boosts - have each gone their separate ways, Kuwait back into theOPEC quota fold and the UAE to what amounts to unrestricted freedom, theoutlooks for two producers in the first half of next year show a wide variation.

After putting in a written reservation rejecting the quota allocated to theUAE in the Vienna agreement, the UAE Oil Minister, Dr....