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Kuwait’s Mega Al-Zour Refinery Fully Operating for First Time
The al-Zour oil and gas refinery.Source: -/AFP/Getty Images

Kuwait’s mega Al-Zour refinery is now fully operational, Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co. announced on Sunday.

Bringing online the third of the three mini refineries that make up Al-Zour will gradually take the facility’s refining capacity to 615,000 barrels a day from a current 410,000 barrels a day, KIPIC chief executive officer, Waleed Al-Bader, said in a statement.

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