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Kuwait Oil

Volume 177: debated on Monday 15 October 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has on the output of Kuwait oil refineries and the export of petroleum products prior to the invasion on an annual basis.

Kuwait oil refinery production and exports 1984–88 (the most recent available figures) were as follows (all figures in thousands of barrels per day):

19841985198619871988
Production478·9566·5599·0619·0653·1
Exports394·9492·9525·0553·0635·0
In 1987, the latest year for which detailed figures are available, the breakdown of production by product was as follows:
Barrels1
Gasoline34·0
Kerosene68·1
Distillate fuels132·5

Barrels

1

Residual fuels276·7
Others107·7

1 All figures in thousands of barrels per day.

Source: OPEC