VOL. XLIII

No. 39

25-September-2000

BAHRAIN

KPC Sells Bahrain-Based GIIC To GIC-Brazil Joint Venture

The Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) has sold the Gulf Industrial Investment Company (GIIC), a Bahrain-based iron oxide pellet plant, to a joint venture between the Kuwait-based Gulf Investment Company (GIC) and Brazils Itaco, an offshore subsidiary of CVRD, Brazils largest mining company. GIC-Itaco purchased GIIC for $183mn. KPC purchased the iron pellet plant in April 1988 from the Bahrain-based...