March 20, 2008 Kuwait City, Kuwait
Kuwait City, Kuwait, March 20, 2008 – Kames Petroleum Services, the major supplier of imported natural gas to Kuwait’s power and desalination plants, is one of four lead sponsors to the Fifth Kuwait City Music & Arts Festival 2008.
Within a very short space of time, the Festival has grown to play a leading part in the cultural life of the Emirate of Kuwait City. This year’s program, from March 22 through April 2, is the most ambitious to date. It emphasizes the Festival’s developing position in the world arts calendar – with the London Philharmonic and the Bolshoi Ballet among signature performers alongside the finest painters, musicians and opera and classical Arabic singers.
In announcing the sponsorship, Kames Petroleum Services CEO Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh stated: “Kames Petroleum Services takes great pleasure in sponsoring the Festival – which must be seen in the context of Kuwait City’s ambition to become a leading international centre of art, culture and heritage.”
He added: “Very soon our capital city will be home to Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Kuwait City, Zaha Hadid’s Performing Arts Centre, Jean Nouvel’s Louvre and Tadeo Ando’s Maritime Museum. Kuwait City requires, and deserves, an Arts Festival that measures up to this new and increasingly exhilarating cultural atmosphere.”
Kames Petroleum Services was created in 1999 to produce and process substantial quantities of natural gas in Qatar, then supply it by export pipeline to customers in the Kuwait and Oman. Production began in July 2007. In February 2008, the company achieved its maximum throughput level of 2 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day.