Major Oil Companies
Operating
In The
Gulf Region
Subsidiaries of Kuwait Petroleum Corp. include: Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC), Kuwait National Petroleum Co., Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC), Kuwait Oil Tanker Co., Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. (Kufpec), and Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI, London)
Original Concession Holders:
Kuwait Oil Co. Ltd., subsidiary of BO (Kuwait) Ltd., and Gulf Kuwait Co., Kuwait Shell Development Co. Ltd., owned by Royal Dutch/Shell Group
For Kuwaiti portion of Neutral Zone:
Offshore: Arabian Oil Company Limited, Japan Petroleum Trading Co. Ltd.
Onshore: American Independent Oil Co., joint venture of Phillips Petroleum, Signal Oil and Gas, Ashland, J.S. Abercrombie, Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co., Globe Oil and Refining Co., and Pauley Petroleum Inc.
http://www.virginia.edu/igpr/apagoilcompany.htm
Major Foreign Oil Company Involvement:
British Petroleum Co. Plc
Chevron
Getty Oil Co.
Gulf Oil
Japan's Arabian Oil Co. (AOC)
Mobil Corp.
Royal Dutch/Shell,
Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd.
Texaco
Total
STEVEN A. McCALEB
MY OPINION