VOL. XLI

No. 08

23-February-1998

KUWAIT

KOC Begins Drilling Second Well In Kara al-Maru Field In West Kuwait

The Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) - the E&P subsidiary of the state-owned KuwaitPetroleum Corporation (KPC) - announced on 18 November the start of drilling on the secondexploration well (the KM-2 well) in the Kara al-Maru field in western Kuwait whichcontains high quality light oil. In a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), theDirector of the KOC Drilling Group, Mr. Abd al-Husain...