Kuwait has acknowledged defeat on its bid to increase production capacity to 4mn b/d by 2020. The cornerstone of this was Kuwait Oil Company’s 3.65mn b/d target, but in late-2018 this was pushed back to at least 2023. The next planned milestone is the mid-2019 start of the Lower Fars Phase One Heavy Oil development. A new team at the top will have to contend with an increasingly agitative parliament.
| Crude Output | 2.75 | mn b/d |
| Crude Exports | 2.05 | mn b/d |
| Gas Output | 18 | bcm |
| Oil & Gas export revenue | 66 | $bn |
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KPC has woken up to the fact that IMO 2020 bunkering rules – which enter force in less than five months – will render obsolete planned sulfur levels in fuel from its under-construction 615,000 b/d Al Zour refinery. Its solution is to expand a planned RFCC. Expect further delays to a plant originally slated for 2019 start-up.
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