VOL. XLIII

No. 26

26-June-2000

KUWAIT

Parliament Attacks Kuwaits Oil Management As Committees Investigate Refinery Deaths

Kuwaits Oil Minister Shaikh Sa'ud Nasir al-Sabah said on 19 June that the government had set up a committee to investigate an accident at Kuwait National Petroleum Companys (KNPCs) Shu'aiba oil refinery on 17 June in which two Kuwaiti technicians were killed and four other workers were injured. It is thought that the men were exposed to leakages of hydrogen and hydrogen...