Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) said on Saturday that it managed to stop a minor gas leakage at Al-Ahmadi refinery according to a KNPC spokesman.
KNPC Public Relations and Media Department director Mohammad Al-Ajmi said in a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that gas leakage took place at 7 am on Saturday, noting that it was a limited one at a gas pipeline at the seventh area of Al-Ahmadi refinery that is run by the company.
He made clear that KNPC emergency plans were activated once the leakage happened in what enabled the operations team from closing the source of leakage and totally insulating it.
The pipeline is currently being surveyed and investigations are underway for inspecting the causes of leakage and making necessary repairs. However, Al-Ajmi asserted there are no casualties or damage, noting the operational and export processes at the refinery were not affected by this minor accident.
In 2008 the aging 460,000bpd refinery which is the Gulf state’s biggest had caught fire and in 2000, five people were killed and 50 injured whilst trying to isolate a leaking condensate line between an NGL plant and the refinery. Â Three crude units and two reformers were damaged in the blast.
