THE ARABIAN PENINSULA AND PERSIAN GULF COUNTRIES MINERALS YEARBOOK—1988
857Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. 
 With the cessation of hostilities between Iran and Iraq in August, shipping
activities in the Persian Gulf increased; however, Kuwaiti ports had not
yet reached capacity levels by yearend. Of the 1 1 Kuwaiti petroleum tankers
that had been registered in the United States to legally permit U.S. Naval
protection, 6 had reverted to the Kuwaiti flag by yearend with the remaining
5 to follow in early 1989. 
 While petroleum was Kuwait's prin 
cipal mineral export—averaging nearly 1 .4 million barrels of crude
oil and products daily in 1988, shipments of ammonia, urea, and fertilizers
from Kuwait made a significant impact in African, Middle Eastern, and Far
Eastem markets. In 1986, exports of urea totaled 715,000 tons and exports
of ammonia totaled 170,000 tons. When hostilities in the Gulf escalated in
1987, Kuwait stopped exporting ammonia until a cease-fire went into effect.
In spite of high-war-risk-insurance premiTABLE 6 
ums, 430,000 tons of fertilizer was cxported to China and an estimated 300,000
tons was exported to India in 
1987. Ammonia exports were resumed after the August 1988 cease-fire, and
exports for 1989 were expected to be between 350,000 and 400,000 tons. 
 In 1988, 1 1% by value of all Kuwaiti imports were derived from the United
States. Petroleum exports to the United States averaged 92,000 bbl/d of which
89,000 bbl/d was crude and unfinished oils, and the remainder was liquefied

KUWAIT: PRODUCTION OF MINERAL COMMODITIES1 
 
Commodity 
1984 
1985 
1986 
1987~ 
 
1988e 
Cement thousand metric tons 
1,184 
1 193 
1 014 
1,000 
 
2888 
Clay products, nonrefractory: Sand lime 
 
 
 
 
 
 
bricks cubic meters 
~45OOOO 
336,200 
336,000 
336,000 
 
2300100 
Gas, natural:3 
250,000 
1 90,000 
235,000 
2 ~ 82,000 
. 
300,000 
Gross million cubic feet 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Marketed * do. 
173,000 
172,000 
210,000 
2165000 
 
270,000 
Lime: Hydrated and quicklime metric tons 
15,000 
52,400 
57,198 
262700 
 
~65 000 
Natural gas liquids4 thousand 42-gallon barrels 
~24455 
19,710 
27,375 
229200 
 
e30,000 
Nitrogen: N content of ammonia metric tons 
289,800 
322,700 
450,600 
2577500 
 
e550,000 
Petroleum: 
424,200 
374,000 
518,600 
2496770 
 
e590,000 
Crude3 thousand 42-gallon barrels 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Refinery products: 
8,760 
reioooo 
e~3~ 
 
 
12,000 
Gasoline, motor do. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jetfuel do. 
5,110 
re~ooo 
eg~~ 
eg~~y~ 
 
1o,o~o 
Kerosene do. 
8,030 
eioooo 
e~3fl~ç~ 
ej3r,~cl~J 
 
13,000 
Distillate fuel oil do. 
37,960 
r ~45000 
~45600 
p45000 
 
45,000 
Residual fuel oil do. 
66,430 
e79,000 
egsooo 
egoooo 
 
88,000 
Refinery fuel and loss do. 
5,840 
e7,000 
~8400 
 
 
8,000 
Other do. 
41975 
esoooo 
~46000 
e45000 
 
45,000 
Total do. 
174,105 
r °207,000 
229,000 
222,300 
 
221 ,000 
Salt metric tons 
21 000 
21 000 
21 000 
21 000 
 
21,000 
Sodium and potassium compounds: 
9,500 
9,800 
10,000 
12,000 
 
216100 
Caustic soda do. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sulfur: 
e237,000 
~250000 
260,000 
310,000 
 
2360000 
Elemental, petroleum byproduct do. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sulfuric acid do. 
~4495 
4,600 
4,600 
4,600 
 
24500 
e Estimated. ~ Preliminary. '  Revised. 
1 Table includes data available through June 17, 1989. 
~ 2 Reported figure. 
 
3 Includes Kuwaits share of production in the Kuwait-Saudi Arabia Neutral
Zone. 
4 Gas plant liquids.