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On Monday, state-owned Kuwait Oil Company declared a “state of emergency” over an oil spill that caused no injuries or disrupted production operations in the Gulf state.

The company said in a statement that it had declared “a state of emergency due to the oil spill in the west of the country” and noted that “there were no injuries and production operations were not affected by the spill”.

“We are dealing with an oil spill in an oil operations area in the west of the country, on land, not at sea, but it is not a residential area,” company spokesman Qusay al-Amer told AFP.

Al-Amer noted that “an emergency committee is assessing the situation to reassure people and find out the source of the leak, whether it is an oil well”, emphasizing that “there are no toxic gases”.

The state of emergency will be maintained until the end of the operation,” he added.

Al-Rai, a Kuwaiti newspaper, posted a video on its Twitter account showing a pipeline leaking black oil into a vacant lot.

Kuwait, which is one of the richest countries in the Gulf, rich in oil and energy resources, produces around 2.7 million barrels of oil per day, most of it exported from overhaul ports in Gulf waters. Oil revenue accounts for about 90 percent of revenue in Kuwait, a key member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Kuwait Oil Company previously reported leaks at its facilities in 2016 and 2020.

In August 2017, Kuwait witnessed two oil spills, one of them 1.6 kilometers off the coast of the capital. Experts estimate that the second accident spilled about 35,000 barrels of crude oil into the water near a Saudi-Kuwaiti oil field in the Khafji region.

In January 2022, two people died and ten were injured in a fire at the gas liquefaction unit of Kuwait’s largest oil refinery, the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery, in southern Kuwait.

Source: EuroNews

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