KUWAIT

 

Kuwait To Launch New Refinery Before Upgrading Existing Plants

Kuwait plans to launch the long-delayed, new 615,000 b/d refinery at al-Zour six months before it starts to upgrade the 270,000 b/d Mina Abdullah and 466,000 b/d Mina al-Ahmadi refineries in the Clean Fuels Project (CFP), MEES learns. State-owned refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has asked engineering firms to apply for prequalification for both projects (MEES 30 April), and has also opened the...