Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 45

8-November-2004

KUWAIT

Kuwaits GC 15 Start-Up Delayed Until Late December At Earliest

Gathering Center (GC) 15, which was destroyed by the explosion and fire at the Raudhatain oilfield in January 2002 and was scheduled for start-up in October, will now not come back on-stream until late December or early January 2005, a Kuwaiti oil official said on 4 November. He added that the rebuilding work was nearly complete, but some fine tuning was still required....