Kuwait Oil Company plans to more than triple output at its gas fields to 600,000 cubic feet per day through second-phase development of a non-associated gas production programme, said a top official.

Kuwait would boost production to more than 1 billion cubic feet per day at a later stage, Mohammed Hussain, Kuwait Oil's deputy managing director for gas and planning, was quoted as saying in the Meed.
   
Meanwhile, Qatar Petroleum plans to start a study reviewing whether to continue operating two natural gas liquids plants at Mesaieed given the decline in crude output and associated gas from the an onshore field at Dukhan and two offshore fields, Meed said, without giving a source. The facilities were first installed in late 1980, it said.