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His Excellency the Minister of Oil, Dr. Al-Fares directs the formation of an investigation committee immediately to investigate the circumstances of the Ahmadi refinery fire

14-01-2022

Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy d. Mohammed Al-Fares directs the formation of an investigation committee immediately to investigate the circumstances of the Ahmadi refinery fire His Excellency the Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy Dr. Mohammed Abdul Latif Al-Fares stated that the firefighting teams in the Kuwait National Petroleum Company were able to fully and in record time control the fire that occurred at exactly 9:45 am this Friday, January 14, 2022 in the unit Gas liquefaction No. 32 at the company's Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery during the replacement of one of the valves of the unit, which is under comprehensive maintenance work from November 2021 and will continue until next February. His Excellency the Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity, Water, Energy and Renewables Dr. Mohammed Al-Fares, Acting CEO of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Wafaa Al-Zaabi and CEO of the National Petroleum Company Walid Al-Badr and a number of company leaders were present at the site since the first minutes of the fire and a number of the company’s leaders immediately to follow up efforts to control it in the field, and to check on the situation. Close to the safety of workers. His Excellency the Minister Dr. Al-Fares immediately issued directives to form a high-level, impartial technical investigation committee, whose members are experienced and specialized to study and evaluate the accident, determine the causes of its occurrence, and if there is any failure on the part of any party, and put in place the necessary mechanisms to avoid the occurrence of such a matter. In the future, the committee will urgently submit its recommendations to the Minister and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation to take the necessary action based on the results of the investigation work. On the other hand, His Excellency the Minister made it clear that due to the fact that the damaged unit was out of service for maintenance reasons at the time of the accident, the refinery operations and export operations were not affected by the fire, and the local marketing operations or supply operations to the Ministry of Electricity and Water were not affected, and the company will soon start work on restoring unit back to normal. His Excellency the Minister, Dr. Mohammed Abdul Latif Al-Fares, mourned with great sadness and sorrow the contractor workers of Asian nationality who died while performing their work. He prayed to God for a speedy recovery to those injured in the fire. The accident resulted in the registration of two deaths, in addition to 10 injuries, 3 of whom were treated and returned to their homes, and the treatment of the rest in hospitals was closely and continuously monitored by His Excellency the Minister of Oil, the Minister of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy and the company’s leaders.