VOL. XLI

No. 05

2-February-1998

YEMEN

Yemen's Oil Minister Says Aden Refinery To Be Partially Privatized

In an interview with the Yemen weekly 26 September published on 23 January theYemeni Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources, Mr. Muhammad al-Khadim al-Wajih, disclosedthat the government was planning to partially privatize the Aden refinery in a bid tosecure financing for the refinery's upgrading project. The Minister was quoted as sayingthat "in order to overcome the problem of funding, we...