Tagged With Kuwait
22 May 2025
With contract awards looming on the Kuwait-Saudi backed Dorra field, the long-stalled gas project appears finally to be gaining traction—despite Iranian objections
29 July 2024
The region, known for its crude output, has gone from product importer to exporter, easing supply worries in Europe and creating a supply glut in Asia and elsewhere
20 June 2024
Emir Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Sabah’s dissolution of parliament gives him more power to shape decisions on the country’s oil and gas future
10 March 2023
Capacity additions set to take advantage of disruption to Russian diesel
2 February 2023
The region’s producers have their own specific goals and face drastically different challenges
17 October 2022
The opportunity offered by high oil prices to expand static oil and gas capacity is being squandered
3 May 2022
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia’s domestic scarcity has driven the formal revival of longstanding plans to tap the shared Dorra field
20 December 2021
The world has no lack of recoverable oil and gas resources. But where they will come from in the future will change
8 November 2021
KPC chief claims remediation is just around the corner, but his assessment appears improbably upbeat
22 June 2021
Middle Eastern NOCs have turned to the downstream to take greater control over the global supply chain
13 April 2021
NOC reflates its spending and projects grind forward. But no-one should expect miracles
26 January 2021
More cordial Saudi-Qatar relations raise hopes for economic and energy investment progress in other GCC allies. But serious challenges remain
18 January 2021
Renewed political upheaval augurs ill for oil sector development plans
10 November 2020
While US shale firms batten down the hatches or seek M&A solutions to their problems, Mid-East Gulf unconventionals are enjoying a revival
24 September 2020
Auctioning minority stakes in NOCs’ assets may fill short-term budget holes, but they are no guarantee of long-term change
21 July 2020
The current oil market slump validates the increasing focus of the Gulf’s main upstream producers on petrochemicals
8 July 2020
From boosting oil production to throttling it back and with challenging oil and gas dynamics in both the short and longer-term, the region’s producers have their hands full
20 February 2020
Domestic politics and international demand fears dictate downward revision of production targets
17 January 2020
Belated reconciliation over acreage shared with Saudi Arabia offers relief for Kuwait's flagging oil expansion efforts
1 October 2019
Beset by intra-GCC tension, Gulf states are dithering in the face of the Iran crisis
9 August 2019
Individual GCC states have settled on convoluted ways of distributing natural gas due to a lack of cooperation
31 July 2019
KOC is poised to deliver on offshore and gas plans after delays stretching back more than a decade
13 March 2019
Kuwaiti energy officials are hoping that the recent wholesale shake-up of senior management will herald a calmer future
5 February 2019
Growing conventional hydrocarbon production should still be a priority as the energy transition takes shape
31 January 2019
Intra-GCC tensions will continue under the cloud of Saudi-Iran hostility
11 January 2019
Petroleum Economist’s 5th GCC Energy Strategy Forum in Kuwait City on 5 February will showcase the country’s strategy and that of other Gulf states in the face of a changing global energy environment
27 September 2018
Gulf refiners wonder how to cope with new green standards for shipping and aviation fuel
26 July 2018
Oman is leading the way in Gulf EOR development, and its neighbours are fast realising its advantages
3 April 2018
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation is expanding its global footprint as it targets increased domestic oil and gas capacity
2 March 2018
Gas shortages will prompt expansion in regional demand for liquefied natural gas
5 February 2018
The country is working towards raising crude oil production capacity by more than 1.5m barrels a day by 2040
16 January 2018
Despite the perennial shadow of political turbulence, upstream gas and LNG import projects are progressing
10 October 2017
Based on personal memories, Gerald Butt evokes the atmosphere in the Gulf at the dawn of the oil boom era
21 September 2017
Moves to privatise state energy firms in the Middle East have begun, but progress will be slow and patchy
14 September 2017
The region's refiners have less than three years to play their ace card as the IMO implements new sulphur limits on bunker fuel from 2020
30 August 2017
The GCC/Qatar crisis is only the latest and most serious case of Gulf oil producers putting sovereignty above regional integration
14 August 2017
An offshore oil spill in the Neutral Zone could complicate efforts to restart Kuwaiti-Saudi production
20 June 2017
The group's latest figures show Gulf oil states' earnings have plummeted, while the region's population keeps rising
14 June 2017
The Qatar crisis has ensured that the region can no longer boast being an oasis of tranquillity
24 May 2017
The country wants to shake off its reputation for delays and energy sector in-fighting
3 April 2017
It is home to the world's biggest exporter—and also some of its fastest-growing consumers. Yet intra-regional trade remains thin
1 March 2017
Kuwait is plugging away in its upstream and will seek more IOC help to do so
1 March 2017
Fearful of American shale and electric cars, GCC states want to lessen their oil-revenue dependence
14 February 2017
Reviving the Kuwait sovereignty issue would be disastrous for Iraq
