KUNA Kuwaiti State news agency said that the Kuwaiti Aref Energy had announced that its joint venture in Texas discovered natural gas reserves are recoverable amount to 4.75 trillion cubic feet.

The agency added that the U.S. firm Halliburton, “is currently developing the initial steps of gas production is expected to commence production in the first quarter of next year,”

 
Aref has 50 percent of the project in Texas and the U.S. partners have 50 percent, did not give more details of the joint venture,

 
The Kuwaiti company had founded in 2007 owed DeWitt Co., a unit wholly owned by its 50 percent stake in the concession for the exploration and production of oil and gas a 20-year 75 thousand acres of land in the area of DeWitt in the state of Texas.