KUWAIT

US Reverses Previous Ruling on Kuwait's Mineral Leases on Federal Land

The US Department of the Interior has issued a decision reversing a two-year-old ruling of former Secretary James G. Watt, which prohibited Santa Fe International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) from acquiring oil and gas leases on federal acreage (MEES, 21 March and 27 June 1983).

The Watt decision, which was reversed by the outgoing Secretary of the Interior Mr. William...