RIYADH: Commissioning of Kuwait’s planned $16 billion Al-Zour refinery is facing further delays, according to MEED.
This will hinder the schedule set by state-owned Kuwait integrated Petrochemicals Industrial Co. for the facility to become operational.
“Looking at the state of the commissioning process now, it seems unlikely that the refinery will even be partially online if we wait for a few more weeks,” MEED reported, citing one source.
This comes despite talks in November 2021 about the oil facility – which is anticipated to be one of the largest refineries in the MENA region – to become operational in early 2022.
For now, the refinery will start operating some units in the near future. However, production of actual export quality products will not be anytime soon.
