KUWAIT Oil Minister Saad Al Barrak told SkyNews Arabia yesterday that his country will start drilling and begin production at the Durra gas field without waiting for border demarcation with Iran.
Al Barrak previously said that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have “exclusive rights” in the Durra gas field in the Gulf, calling on Iran to validate its claim to the field by demarcating its own maritime borders first.
In March 2022, Kuwait signed a document with Saudi Arabia to develop the Durra field, which is expected to produce a billion standard cubic feet per day of natural gas and 84,000 barrels per day of condensate, according to a statement issued at the time by the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
However, Iran claimed that the document was “illegal” as it ‘participates in the field and must join any measure to operate and develop it. In early July, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that the area in which the Durra gas field is located is in the marine areas of Kuwait, that the natural resources therein are shared with Saudi Arabia, and that they alone have “exclusive rights in it.”
According to the official Kuwaiti News Agency, quoting an unnamed official source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kuwait has renewed its call to Iran to start negotiations on demarcating the maritime borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as one negotiating party
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