VOL. XLIV

No. 21

21-May-2001

KUWAIT

KNPC Commissions New Jet Fuel Unit At Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery

The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) announced on 13 May that a new 20,000 b/d jet fuel unit had been commissioned at the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery, replacing the refinerys older 5,000 b/d unit that has now been abandoned. A KNPC official denied reports that the older unit was destroyed in the explosion and fire at the refinery in June of last year (MEES, 3 July 2000), and said that the new...