Fire at Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery put out: KNPC

Firefighters arriving to put out a fire at the Mina Al-Ahmadi facility, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the capital Kuwait City. (File/AFP)

LONDON: Firefighters managed to put out a fire in one of the bitumen production unit’s lines at Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery, Kuwait National Petroleum Company said in a statement on Friday.
“The company’s crews were able to successfully extinguish the fire that broke out in one of the lines of the bitumen production unit at the company’s Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery,” said KNPC spokesman Ghanim Al-Otaibi in the statement posted on X.
Al-Otaibi, who is also the executive vice president of fuel supply operations at KNPC, had earlier announced that a “limited fire” was “being dealt with according to the procedures followed by the company,” adding that they would provide more details when available.
KNPC did not mention if production and operations were affected due to the fire.
(With Reuters)