Kuwait to build new refinery

Published April 25th, 2005 - 10:47 GMT

Kuwait has decided to build a new 600,000 bpd refinery to boost capacity to about 1.5 million bpd, an oil executive said in comments published Sunday.


Work on the new refinery, the fourth in the emirate, is scheduled to begin in 2007 and production will begin in early 2010, Project Manager Ahmad Al-Jeemaz told Al-Anbaa newspaper.