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First LNG cargo arrives at Al-Zour
KUWAIT KUWAIT’S new regasification terminal at metres per day of gas.
Al-Zour received its first shipment of LNG last Imports of LNG are seen playing a major role
week as work remains ongoing to prepare per- in Kuwait’s aim to increase the use of cleaner
manent units for start-up. fuels, with the same aim aided by the recent com-
According to the Kuwait News Agency pletion of its $15.7bn Clean Fuels Project which
(KUNA), state-owned Kuwait Integrated Petro- covered the overhaul and expansion of its two
leum Industries Co. (KIPIC) received a 213,000 key existing oil refineries.
cubic metre cargo of Qatari LNG at its LNG The $16.1bn Al-Zour complex will also be
Import (LNGI) terminal. A KIPIC spokesman home to a 615,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery
said that the firm was expecting to receive a sec- that is due for commissioning later this year.
ond consignment of Qatari gas, this time on a KIPIC had set a target commissioning date
vessel with a capacity of 217,000 cubic metres. of late 2020 for the refinery but this was pushed
The news follows reports that KIPIC’s parent, back to Q1 2021 as restrictions relating to coro-
Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) had contacted navirus (COVID-19) slowed progress. The refin-
traders last month for a cargo delivered ex-ship ery’s first mini refining unit will begin operations
(DES). in November, as it gradually ramps up ahead of
The 22mn tonne per year (tpy) facility is part being fully operational at the end of Q1 2022.
of a massive new downstream hub at Al-Zour Meanwhile, a 2.8mn tpy petrochemical facil-
developed by KIPIC which was set up for the ity is expected to follow, with a provisional date
purpose. set for 2024 on units that will be capable of pro-
LNGI is home to eight storage tanks with a ducing 1.4mn tpy of paraxylene (PX), 940,000
capacity of 225,000 cubic metres and a regasifi- tpy of polypropylene (PP) and 420,000 tpy of
cation facility capable of processing 3bn cubic gasoline.
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