Kuwait to boost oil output

Published October 5th, 2004 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Kuwait will pump up to 200,000 more barrels of crude daily later this month, the emirate’s energy minister said Monday, according to AFP

 

Kuwait is currently producing to its maximum capacity of 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd), but “we will have an additional output of between 180,000 and 200,000 bpd” once Gathering Center 15 returns to operation later in October, Sheikh Ahmad Fahd Al-Sabah told reporters. “

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