VOL. XXXII

NO. 20

20-FEBRUARY-1989

KUWAIT

KNPC Plans Construction of MTBE Unit at Mina al-Ahmadi Refinery

The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), a subsidiary of the state-ownedKuwait Petroleum Company, has pre-qualified six international firms to submitbids for a contract covering the construction of a 1,300 b/d methyl tertiarybutyl ether (MTBE) unit at the Mina al-Ahmadi refinery. MTBE is used as anadditive to gasoline to improve its octane rating instead of the tetra ethyllead now used...