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The Ministry of Oil organizes a panel discussion entitled "Earthquake Phenomenon"

15-02-2023

Sheikha Tamader Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah: The Ministry of Oil aims to spread awareness of the reasons that occurred in the Turkey earthquake and to reject rumors and misinformation Today, Wednesday, February 15, 2023, the Public Relations Department at the Ministry of Oil organized a panel discussion entitled (Earthquake Phenomenon), in which the Director of Decision Makers Programs for Environmental Crisis Management at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the supervisor of the Kuwaiti National Seismological Network Dr. Abdullah Al-Enezi lectured, and a number of employees attended. Technical and economic affairs in the Ministry of Oil, guests from the Environment Public Authority, the Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), and the media. At the beginning of the panel discussion, the Director of Public Relations and Information at the Ministry of Oil, Sheikha Tamader Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, welcomed the attendees to discuss the phenomenon of earthquakes after the devastating catastrophe that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria and claimed thousands of victims and injured, in one of the worst natural disasters in history, noting the importance of the seminar. It came to spread awareness of the reasons that occurred in the earthquake in Turkey and to reject rumors and misinformation. For his part, Dr. Abdullah Al-Enezi said that the impact of earthquakes on oil reservoirs needs in-depth studies, and this is what those responsible for the oil sector in the country should do. He added that predicting earthquakes in oil fields is difficult, but it can be expected according to the data and visuals around us, pointing out the need not to build positions on prediction and prediction, but focus on attention to designs for building facilities and buildings that can resist earthquakes. He explained that it is not a condition that earthquakes have a negative impact on the oil reservoirs, but they can be more beneficial and positive, citing the example of several countries whose oil fields were less productive, but the earthquakes contributed to increasing their oil production as they caused cracks, which led to a change in the conditions of the reservoirs for the better. In production operations, pointing out that any human activity in the ground will result in earthquakes, but the earthquakes resulting from oil exploration operations remain very weak.