Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 42

17-October-2005

REGIONAL

SADR Denounces Planned Activities By US Companies Offshore Western Sahara

The Government of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) on 12 October denounced plans involving Kerr McGee Corporation and its partners Kosmos Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources Company on the one side, and the Moroccan government on the other, to start drilling operations offshore Western Sahara, the former Spanish colony claimed by Morocco that...