- Aug 04, 2022, 5:00 PM CDT
While Kuwait has an impressive breakeven price and could boost its oil production, it will be up to the new prime minister to push through the necessary economic reforms.Kuwait’s crude oil production has shrunk to around 2.7 million bpd, little in the way of significant new investment has been made into its oil sector in years, and the entire government – including its oil minister - resigned in April.
In order to re-energize Kuwait’s efforts in this regard, then, the new prime minister’s immediate task will be to form a new government and he can begin this process by providing the names of potential candidates to Kuwait’s Emir, Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, to issue a decree appointing them.
The KOC then announced that it had awarded around KWD350 million in contracts to a range of international companies for the supply of 31 oil rigs. The largest of these went to China National Petroleum Corporation , with the remainder going to a mix of seven foreign firms from Oman, the UK, and Egypt, plus domestic Kuwaiti companies.