VOL. XLVII

No 20

17-May-2004

KUWAIT

KPCs Europort Refinery In Rotterdam Back At Full Production Capacity

The Europort refinery in Rotterdam, operated by Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) subsidiary Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI), was back at full production capacity of 80,000 b/d on 10 May after a four-to-five-day outage of its 22,600 b/d reforming unit. The reformer, which converts naphtha to gasoline, was shut down after a problem with a gas compression unit, resulting in much reduced...