Yesterday was a historic day for Kuwait which is the beginning of the operations at the Al-Zour refinery, as the industrial island received the first oil tanker carrying naphtha, the basic material to operate the refinery, which is expected next March.
Senior oil sources told Al-Anba that the Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) is currently conducting the first stages of operating the Al-Zour refinery and testing the operational units of the refinery, which has a refining capacity of 615,000 barrels per day, which is the largest ever in the region, and is built on one phase.
The sources stated that the Al-Zour Refinery succeeded in the past few days in the preliminary operation of the hydrogen unit for the refinery project, which consists of 4 huge factories.
