• Kuwait awards Golar LNG $213m contract – US-based company to supply a floating storage and regasification unit for liquefied natural gas.
• Kuwait launches major water injection deal – Kuwait Oil Company plans to boost crude production in northern Kuwait.
• Kuwait Energy increases revenue and production in Q2 – Kuwait Energy saw second quarter revenues rise 51.8 per cent to US$77.6 million compared to $51.1 million in the same period last year due to new contributions from producing fields in Egypt and a 15 per cent interest in a Yemeni field.
• Kuwait’s crude oil exports to Japan rose to 20.5 per cent in June from a year earlier to 7.58 million barrels, or 253,000 bpd, Kuwait’s government said Wednesday. Kuwait remained Japan’s fourth-biggest oil supplier in June, providing 7.7 per cent of the country’s total crude imports, compared with 6.5 per cent in the same month of last year, Japan’s Natural Resources and Energy Agency said in a preliminary report.