Shuaiba Fossil Oil Refinery Explosion



A burn at Kuwait's 200,000 barrel-per-day Shuaiba fossil oil refinery on Mon led to its total shutdown exactly at that topographic point were no casualties, an official at province refiner State of Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) said.

Ahmed al-Jemaz, acting primary executive, said inwards a contention on the company's Twitter concern human relationship that a burn at the heavy fossil oil corking unit of measurement at Kuwait's smallest refinery had been brought nether control.

"No injuries were recorded as well as therefore far. All the refinery's units convey been unopen downward as well as all employees were evacuated equally a precautionary measure," Jemaz said inwards a statement.

He said firefighters as well as emergency teams were on high alert.

A KNPC root told Reuters because of refined products inwards storage, the country's exports deals would non last affected yesteryear the shutdown.



It was besides early on to say when Shuaiba would last dorsum to total operations as well as regime would investigate the effort of the fire, the root said.

An manufacture root had told Reuters before that at that topographic point was an explosion at Shuaiba.

OPEC fellow member State of Kuwait has 3 refineries alongside a combined capacity of 930,000 bpd.

The ageing coastal Shuaiba refinery inwards southern Kuwait, commissioned inwards 1968, is due to last mothballed afterward the novel 615,000-bpd Al-Zour refinery comes on job yesteryear 2019.

Shuaiba refinery produces light, medium as well as heavy products, including gas, ordinary naphtha, gasoline, kerosene, fuel fossil oil as well as diesel. Shuaiba produces unopen to two ane 1000 1000 tonnes of gasoil as well as some other two ane 1000 1000 tonnes of jet fuel, some other manufacture root said, adding that piece he did non facial expression much impact on gas fossil oil exports, supplies of jet fuel could last disrupted.


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