Sunday, 25 October 2009 at 11:59, Reuters, Kuwait
Opec member Kuwait is expected to post a budget surplus of 9.75 billion dinars ($34.14 billion) in its 2009/10 fiscal year if oil prices remain at current levels, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
The world's fourth-largest oil exporter is expected to post about 5.5bn dinars for the next five months of the fiscal 2009/10 that ends in March, daily newspaper Awan said, citing sources in Kuwait's Ministry of Finance.
Current oil prices at around $80 a barrel, the paper said, will drive up the surplus of the Gulf Arab state, which has assumed its crude, the main revenue earner, would fetch $35 a barrel in its 2009/10 budget.
Kuwait has logged a budget surplus of 4.25bn dinars in the first five months of its 2009/10 fiscal year on higher than forecast oil revenue, official data showed earlier this month.
Kuwait posted a budget surplus of 2.74bn dinars in its 2008/09 fiscal year, on higher oil revenues, as the state assumed its crude would fetch $50 in the year ended March 2009.
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