VOL. XLIII

No. 21

22-May-2000

KUWAIT

Al-Ahliya Investment Buys PICs Salt And Chlorine Plants In First Petrochemicals Privatization

Al-Ahliya Investment Company has bought the Kuwait Petrochemicals Industry Company (PIC) salt and chlorine units at the Shuaiba industrial area for KD10.8mn ($35.1mn) the first privatization in the countrys oil and petrochemicals sector. PIC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), announced in April that the Supreme Petroleum Council had...