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    Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), an oil company headquartered in Al Ahmadi, Kuwait, is a subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, a government-owned holding...
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    The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by the Iraqi military setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled...
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    The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) (Arabic: شركة البترول الوطنية الكويتية) is the national oil refining company of Kuwait. Established in October...
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    Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Arabic: مؤسسة البترول الكويتية) is Kuwait's major national oil company, headquartered in Kuwait City. The activities of...
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  • issue for Kuwait was territorial more than oil. Kuwait never drilled deviated wells that crossed the Iraqi borders. After the liberation of Kuwait in 1991...
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    As of 2016[update], Kuwait has a population of 4.2 million people; 1.3 million are Kuwaitis and 2.9 million are expatriates. Oil reserves were discovered...
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    The Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) is a national oil company in the State of Kuwait. KGOC operates under Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. It manages Kuwait's...
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    1950. In 1934, the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) was formed as a joint venture by British Petroleum, then called the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), and Gulf...
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    marketing. Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) : Crude oil exploration and development company. Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) : Runs oil refineries across...
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  • country. It contains the headquarters for the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) and Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) with many of its refineries located there...
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    Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC), jointly owned by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later British Petroleum Company) and Gulf Oil Corporation In 1976, the Kuwaiti Government...
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    most of present-day Kuwait was part of ancient Mesopotamia. Before the discovery of oil, Kuwait was a regional trade port. Oil reserves were discovered...
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    The Burgan field is an oil field situated in the desert of southeastern Kuwait. Burgan field can also refer to the Greater Burgan—a group of three closely...
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    Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت) is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. Located at the heart of the country on the south shore of Kuwait Bay on the...
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  • Discovery of oil in Kuwait 1975 Nationalisation of oil wells in Kuwait 1980 Foundation of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation 1983 Foundation of Kuwait Petroleum...
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  • Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) is an international upstream company. KUFPEC is a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC)...
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  • interest was in Kuwait, which in 1948 granted the company a 60-year concession to explore for and extract oil and natural gas in the Kuwait “Neutral Zone”...
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    agreement with the Japanese-owned Arab Oil Co., and Kuwait signed in 1958. That concession expired in 2000. The company made its first offshore discovery in...
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  • the head of the Persian Gulf. In the pre-oil era, Kuwait was a regional trade port. In the modern era, Kuwait is best known for the Gulf War (1990–1991)...
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  • Kodiak College, a college located in Kodiak, Alaska Kuwait Oil Company, one of the biggest oil companies in the world Korean Olympic Committee, represents...
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  • The Wafra Oil Field is an oil field located in the Great Burgan. It was discovered in 1984 and developed by Kuwait Oil Company. The oil field is operated...
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    BP (redirect from BP (oil company))
    Company (now Shell Petroleum Development Company). In 1934, APOC and Gulf Oil founded the Kuwait Oil Company as an equally owned partnership. The oil...
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    a 30 percent holding in its Canadian oil shale holdings to Kuwait's state-owned oil company Kuwait Oil Company for a fee of $1.5 billion. Despite these...
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  • Sara Akbar (category Kuwaiti women company founders)
    departmental offices before attaining a position as a petroleum engineer for Kuwait Oil Company. She subsequently worked there in fire-fighting operations, as superintendent...
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  • South Magwa Oil Field is an oil field located in the Great Burgan. It was discovered in 1984 and developed by Kuwait Oil Company. The oil field is operated...
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    MV Sea Isle City (category Tankers of Kuwait)
    MV Sea Isle City, ex-Umm al Maradem, was a Kuwait Oil Company oil tanker that reflagged during Operation Earnest Will. The ship was completed in 1981 by...
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    government of collusion with the Kuwaiti Oil Company, the country's primary economic catalyst since petroleum is Kuwait's biggest financial asset, accounting...
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  • Al Zour Refinery (category Oil refineries in Kuwait)
    friendly oil refinery. Al Zour Refinery is a Kuwait-China cooperation project under the Belt and Road Initiative. The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)...
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    Getty Oil Company was an American oil marketing company with its origins as part of the large integrated oil company founded by J. Paul Getty. J. Paul...
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  • Mahboula (category Kuwait geography stubs)
    "uninhabited, with a few old buildings and unsafe streets." In 2013, the Kuwait Oil Company announced plans to expand their business, and this led to an explosion...
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