Kuwait

Jordan has announced that it holds one of the world's largest reserves of oil shale. The Kingdom has estimated reserves at some 40bn tonnes and believes this figure could double in... 2008-07-11

Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC) has announced that it will spend as much as US$30bn by 2012 in the country's refinery sector.

Egypt is expected to transport gas to Syria via the Arab Gas Pipeline before the end of 2008, according to Egypt's new agency MENAS.

Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) started producing gas on June 5 from fields in northern Kuwait.

State-controlled Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has announced that it is for the first time looking to negotiate performance related contracts with international oil companies... 2008-05-21

Kuwait plans to boost crude production capacity to 3mn barrels per day (b/d) within a year, according to an official quoted by state news agency KUNA.

The new al-Zour refinery in Kuwait may cost as much as US$19bn, US$5bn more than the budget allocated to the project at present, according to a report in the al Rai newspaper.

Several Jordanian MPs have claimed that their government has discovered the existence of significant oil reserves in the Dead Sea, said to be in the region of 500mn barrels (bbl),... 2008-04-02

The Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC) has increased its budget for the new al-Zour refinery to US$14bn according to a company spokesman. The news follows a report in... 2007-07-23

Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has issued a new tender for its planned 615,000 barrel per day (b/d) refinery at al-Zour. This follows a series of delays to the project... 2007-06-18