VOL. XLVI

No 35

01-September-2003  

KUWAIT

Mina Abdullah Refinery Restarts Main Crude Unit

Kuwait’s second largest refinery Mina Abdullah restarted its 190,000 b/d crude distillation unit (CDU) on 23 August. CDU 11 was closed for 12 days for emergency repairs following a problem in the fractionation tower; a 66,000 b/d downstream unit was also shut down until mid-August for yearly maintenance. CDU 11 was last shut down for 30 days of scheduled routine maintenance in September...