By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept.13 -- Total AS has renewed its contract with Kuwait's state owned Kuwait Oil Co. to provide technical assistance in Kuwait upstream activity. The French major provides expertise in the production of oil in the Saudi Arabia-Kuwait Neutral Zone and to exploration in Kuwait.
Total has been serving in this capacity since 1997.
Total also is a partner in the ChevronTexaco-led consortium competing with two other consortiums to open oil exploration in northern Kuwait to foreign companies.
