VOL. XLII

No. 02

11-January-1999

KUWAIT

Parliament And Government Lock Horns On Oil Issue In Kuwait

The Kuwaiti Governments drive to open up the countrysupstream oil sector to investment by international oil companies on the basis of an"operating service agreement" model is running up against an intensification ofvigorous opposition from the countrys parliament (for background see MEES, 2November and 7 December 1998). Among other things, a majority of 29 deputies in the50-member National Assembly...