Kuwait Oil Company reveals an oil leakage west of the country

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Edited by| Tony Wild

World Section

03/20/2023-8:56:40 PM

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     The state-owned Kuwait Oil Company announced on Monday, a "state of emergency", after an oil leak that did not cause injuries or obstruct production operations in the Gulf country.

The company stated in a statement that it announced "a state of emergency after an oil leak in the west of the country," noting that "there are no injuries caused by the leakage and the failure of production operations."

"We are dealing with an oil leakage in the oil operations area in the west of the country in a land area, not the sea, but it is not a residential area," the company's spokesman Qusay Al -Amer said in an initial statement to AFP.
Al -Amer pointed out that "the emergency committee is in the process of assessing the situation to reassure people and know the source of the leak if it is an oil well," stressing that "there are no toxic gases."

He continued: "The state of emergency will continue until the process ends."

The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai posted a video on its Twitter account showing an oil tube that rises to black crude from it on barren land.

Kuwait, which is one of the antiquities of the oil-rich Gulf states and energy sources, produces about 2.7 million barrels of oil per day, the majority of which are exported from the ports overlooking the Gulf waters. Oil revenues constitute about 90% of Kuwait's income, the main member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

The Kuwaiti Oil Company has previously announced leakage incidents in its locations in 2016 and 2020.

In August 2017, Kuwait witnessed two oil leaks, one in front of the coast of the capital, with a length of 1.6 km. Experts estimated that the second incident, close to the Saudi -Kuwaiti joint oil field in Al -the Khafji area, witnessed a leak of 35 thousand barrels of crude oil in the water.

In January 2022, two people were killed and ten others were injured after a fire in the gas liquefaction unit of the largest oil refinery in Kuwait, the Al -Ahmadi Port Refinery south of Kuwait City.