The Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation, in a tweet on its official account on Twitter, announced that a fire broke out this morning in Al-Ahmadah Refinery, noting that the firefighting teams are still dealing with accident.
The company said in the tweet: The refinery's operations and export operations were not affected, and the local marketing and supply operations of the Ministry of Electricity and Water were not affected by the fire.
It clarified that the oil desulfurization unit No. 42 where the fire broke out and all lines leading to it have been isolated, indicating that the refinery's firefighting teams are still dealing with the accident.
The company said earlier that there were no injuries as a result of the accident.
The Al-Ahmadi Refinery is one of two oil refineries owned by the state-run Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation, which supplies the country with its needs of oil derivatives and is exported from them abroad.
