Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLIX

No 1/2

2/9-January-2006

Kuwait Seeks To End Upstream Oil/Gas Development Delays In 2006

The Kuwaiti authorities had hoped that by the start of 2006 headway would have been made in the long-delayed plan to expand production from the countrys northern oilfields (Project Kuwait). In the coming weeks, the government will be seeking to remove the obstacles that are blocking the progress of Project Kuwait in the National Assembly. It is also to press ahead with...