VOL. XLVI

No 17

28-April-2003

KUWAIT

Oil Leadership Opposes Principle Of Gas Stations Privatization

Kuwaits oil leadership is opposed in principle to the idea of privatizing gasoline stations in the country, according to a report in the daily al-Rai al-Am of 20 April. In the summer of 2002, the government and Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) discussed a project to privatize the 90-100 gas stations operated by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) by 2005 with 45 facilities targeted in the first...