He added that the plant is operating at its full capacity of 200,000 bpd. Another industry source had earlier told Reuters that Shuaiba was running in recent months at only 120,000 bpd and that it would be shut down for 35 days. We have been running Shuaiba at its maximum capacity of 200,000 bpd. Operations at Shuaiba were unaffected last year when two Kuwaitis were killed in an explosion. The KNPC executive said on Monday that some 2,000 workers from various contractors will take part in the repair plan.
Safety has the highest priority.
The country's largest refinery, the 450,000 bpd Ahmadi, was forced to close in June when six people were killed in a huge explosion. It is now operating at around 285,000 bpd while Mina Abdullah refinery has a capacity of 265,000 bpd. Kuwait sits on almost 10 percent of the world's proven oil reserves and currently has an OPEC quota of 1.941 million bpd. Some 80 percent of Kuwait's domestic refined product production and about 70 percent of its crude output went to Asian states in 1999. All Rights Reserved.