VOL. XLV

No 10

11-March-2002

KUWAIT

Shu'aibaRefinery At Full Capacity, AhmadiCrude Unit To Restart

Kuwait NationalPetroleum Company (KNPC) announced on 5 March that production from the Shu'aiba refinery had returned to capacity 200,000 b/d some10 days earlier. The company announced on 18 February that the plant had beenclosed briefly after a leak had been found in the heat exchanger for the maincrude distillation unit (MEES, 25February). Thereafter the refinery was being restarted gradually. KNPC...