Kuwait’s oil refining capacity to zoom

The country’s oil refining capacity will reach 1.4 million barrels a day by 2011 when a new refinery – billed to be the world’s largest – comes on line, and two of the existing ones are upgraded, a senior oil official said yesterday. The current capacity from Kuwait’s three refineries – Mina Al-Ahmadi, Mina Abdullah and Shuaiba – is 930,000 barrels a day. Shuaiba will be decommissioned when the new facility comes on line in April 2010. “As for the new refinery…we have finished initial designs and tender documents,” Sami Al-Rushaid, chairman and managing director of the state-owned Kuwait National Petroleum Co, told reporters.

Kuwait Times