Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 44

31-October-2005

LEBANON

Kuwaiti Technical Team Surveys Lebanons Two Refineries

A Kuwait Petroleum International technical team has recently visited Lebanon to assess the state of the countrys two refineries, at Tripoli in the north and Zahrani in the south, which have been shut since the late 1980s because of damage sustained during the Lebanese civil war. The visit came at the request of Kuwaiti Minister of Energy Shaikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Sabah who last...