State-run Kuwait Petroleum Corp., or KPC, is looking to develop non-associated gas fields in the country to help it meet the country's rising energy needs, a senior company official said Wednesday.
"The gas Kuwait uses now is all associated gas and it is insufficient by a long shot to meet our power generation and petrochemical needs so we've got to use other fuels," Sheikh Nawaf Saud Nasir Al Sabah, deputy managing director and general counsel at KPC, said at a Dubai conference.
"We are burning liquids in our power generators during the summer months and that's not economically or environmentally sound so we need additional gas," Al Sabah said.
He added that Kuwait is also close to agreeing on a deal to import liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from Qatar during the summer when energy demand is soaring amid the summer heat.
"We are close to a deal on importing LNG into Kuwait for the summer months. We are in talks with Qatar, and in KPC we are looking at the development of our non-associated gas fields but this will take some time," Sabah said.