VOL. XLI

No. 42

19-October-1998

KUWAIT

KNPC Completes 10-Day Maintenance On Mina Abdullah Refinery

The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) announced on 14 Octoberthat it had completed a 10-day full maintenance on its 260,000 b/d Mina Abdullah refinery.The shutdown included the refinerys main units, namely the 140,000 b/d vacuumdistillation unit, the 38,000 b/d hydrocracker and the 64,000 b/d visbreaker. Kuwait hadpreviously announced that crude oil production in October would be reduced by...