Kuwait’s Offshore Exploration: Three Wells, Three Discoveries

17 Oct 2025 Issue: 68 / 42 By: Yesar Al-Maleki

Kuwait’s first offshore drilling campaign in decades has yielded 4.5bn boe of new reserves through its first three wells. The six-well campaign wraps up next year, and buoyed by its successes, Kuwait is already planning additional drilling.

Kuwait is “batting 1,000” in its offshore drilling campaign, as KPC CEO Sheikh Nawaf Al Sabah likes to say. Results are in for the campaign’s third well, with Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) reporting another sizeable commercial discovery. Following on from the Nokhetha-1 and Julaiah-2 discoveries, the Jazah-1 well has yielded initial reserves of 350mn barrels of oil equivalent – 1tcf of natural gas and 120mn barrels of condensate.

The six-well offshore campaign has now discovered 4.5bn boe (3.02bn barrels oil, 6.7tcf gas) through the first three wells. KOC has leased two drill ships for the campaign, and drilling is now underway at the Julaiah-3 and Nokhetha-2 wells. The final well, Rakkhwa-3, will be completed next year. (CONTINUED - 746 WORDS)