Kuwait

Following shutdowns caused by power shortages in early 2014, Kuwait’s refineries are poised to undergo improvements in the year via multibillion-dollar upgrades and new facilities led by the private sector, including construction of the world’s largest oil refinery, which will substantially boost both exports and revenues. At the same time,...

As the Kuwaiti government moves to invest billions in upgrading and expanding its oil production facilities, it has targeted an ambitious increase in crude output, with plans to produce 4m barrels per day (bpd) by 2020. New demand for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the Greater Burgan area has already facilitated further participation by...

With more than 100bn barrels of proven oil reserves, new discoveries in the north of the country and increasingly sophisticated extraction methods ready to be implemented, it is expected that oil revenues will continue to be Kuwait’s most significant economic pillar well beyond 2014. Kuwait ranked as the world’s sixth-largest oil producer in...

In addition to ambitious production and refinery expansion plans, the Kuwaiti government is also moving to rapidly enlarge and upgrade its power grid. With recent refinery shutdowns highlighting the country’s energy vulnerabilities, and domestic consumption of heavily subsidised electricity continuing to rise, the country’s power grid is in...

The state of Kuwait sits at the confluence of three of the most populous and prosperous countries in the Middle East – Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia. As such, Kuwait is a logical transport centre for the northern Gulf and has committed itself to making investments towards attaining that goal.

While in the middle of the 20th century the Kuwaiti aviation sector led the Gulf region in terms of progress and innovation, over the past 20 year or so the country has lost its lead as other GCC states have caught up. In the 1980s, Kuwait Airways was a favourite with an excellent reputation, but today it has largely been eclipsed by the rise...