Article: Kuwait--energy minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Sabah has said that Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) is in the final stages of drafting a document showing that the country's oil reserves are much higher than stated in a 2001 internal report.(COUNTRIES)

KUWAIT -- Energy minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Sabah has said that Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) is in the final stages of drafting a document showing that the country's oil reserves are much higher than stated in a 2001 internal report. KOC and the ministry have been under pressure from the Kuwaiti parliament to come clean on the reserves issue since January, when PIW published an internal KOC report from 2001 stating that the country's remaining reserves were much lower--at around 48 billion bbl--than the official figure of 100 billion bbl (PIW Jan.30,p6). "KOC ...

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