KUWAIT CITY — A fire at a gas liquefaction unit in
Kuwait's largest refinery Friday left 10 people injured before it was put out,
the plant's operator said.
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The blaze "erupted during maintenance work" on the
unit at Mina al-Ahmadi refinery, 40km south of Kuwait City, state-owned Kuwait
National Petroleum Company (KNPC) announced on Twitter.
It said 10 people were injured, five of them hospitalized with
severe burns. Firefighters were mobilized and had extinguished the blaze.
KNPC said Kuwait's refining operations and exports were
unaffected, as the unit affected had already been out of service.
Mina al-Ahmadi, where another fire last October caused a number
of light injuries, is the largest of Kuwait's three refineries and handles some
466,000 barrels of oil per day.
A fourth is under construction with a daily capacity of 615,000
barrels.
A key member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC), Kuwait produces about 2.4 million barrels a day.
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