Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) has successfully started full operation of an environmentally friendly project to expand refining capacity and produce fuel that generates lower emissions and less pollution.
The project includes expanding capacity of the Mina Abdullah refinery to 454,000 barrels per day (bpd) and the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery to 346,000 bpd. It added it would produce products that meet global environmental standards Euro-4 and Euro-5 for reducing emissions and pollutants.
The project was part of Kuwait’s goal to achieve refining capacity of 1.6 million bpd in 2025, KUNA added.
The capital cost of the project has reached 4.680 billion dinar ($15.56 billion), making it one of the biggest and most important development projects in the history of Kuwait’s oil sector.
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