HC Deb 15 October 1990 vol 177 cc742-3W
Sir Trevor Skeet

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.

Mr. Waldegrave

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

1984 1985 1986 1987 1988
Production 478.9 566.5 599.0 619.0 653.1
Exports 394.9 492.9 525.0 553.0 635.0

In 1987, the latest year for which detailed figures are available, the breakdown of production by product was as follows:

Barrels1
Gasoline 34.0
Kerosene 68.1
Distillate fuels 132.5

Barrels1
Residual fuels 276.7
Others 107.7
1 All figures in thousands of barrels per day.

Source: OPEC