Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 40

3-October-2005

KUWAIT

Project Kuwait Debate Heats Up

Two weeks before Kuwaiti deputies return for the start of the new session of parliament scheduled for 17 October the public debate over the controversial and much-delayed plan for the expansion of output from the countrys northern oilfields by a consortium of international oil companies (Project Kuwait) is intensifying. On 24 September, the leader of the Popular bloc in the National Assembly, Ahmad...