Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 28  

12-Jul-2010

Kuwait To Decide On Restarting Suspended $15Bn Refinery Project

Kuwait’s Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) will decide by October whether to restart the mothballed plan to build a $15bn, 615,000b/d refinery at al-Zour, an official of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) tells MEES. The frequently delayed project was originally scheduled for completion in 2010 at a cost of $6.3bn, but was suspended in early...