He stressed the urgency of bringing in foreign firms to help boost output at oilfields torched after the 1990 Iraq invasion.


"The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to achieve," Farouk al-Zanki, head of the Kuwait Oil Company, told Reuters. "There's a really positive indication that it's a priority."

"We need more help. We have an ambitious production plan. We want to meet our target. We can't do it on our own," he said.