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Kuwaiti production not

impacted by Burgan fire

KUWAIT STATE-OWNED Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) said (700,000 cubic metres) because of Kuwait’s
that production from the country’s key Great efforts to comply with OPEC+ restrictions.
Burgan oilfield had not been affected, despite Oil flows from Greater Burgan are expected
the outbreak of a “limited” fire which injured to increase to around 1.8mn bpd over the next
two workers. decade, remaining stable at that level.
In a statement to Kuwait News Agency In January, Kuwaiti Oil Minister Mohammed
(Kuna), Qusai Al-Amer, the company’s spokes- al-Fares announced that KOC had discovered
man and deputy CEO for administrative affairs, two new oilfield fields as well as an extension of
said that the workers, who were contracted to the northern part of Great Burgan.
one of KOC’s service providers, were taken to The Homah oilfield was discovered in
Al-Ahmadi hospital to receive treatment. north-western Kuwait covering an area of more
He added that KOC’s firefighters and than 70 square km. The field flowed at an initial
response teams controlled the fire, noting that rate of 1,452 bpd of light oil. Meanwhile, the
it “had no impact on oil production operations.” al-Qashaniyah field was discovered in the north
Al-Amer said that an investigation would be near the major Rawdatain and al-Sabriya fields.
launched to determine the cause of the fire. Al-Qashaniyah flowed at a rate of 1,819 bpd
Greater Burgan is the world’s second-largest of light 49-degree API oil and 2.78 mmcf (79,000
onshore oilfield and has remaining reserves of cubic metres) per day of associated gas.
around 21bn barrels of oil and nearly 4 trillion Al-Fares said that these discoveries were
cubic feet (113bn cubic metres) of gas, with pro- significant because they shed light on the large
duction having begun in 1946. undiscovered areas in the west and north-west
The field is estimated to have produced an of the country.
average of 1.5mn bpd of oil and 430mn cubic feet The extension to Greater Burgan flowed at a
(12.2mn cubic metres) per day of gas last year, rate of 2,000 bpd from multiple wells that were
down by around 100,000 barrels and 25mmcf drilled during 2020.™

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