By NNN-KUNA,
Kuwait : The Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) has started producing free gas from newly-discovered fields in north Kuwait on Wednesday.
The move opens a new stage for Kuwait’s oil industry, KPC spokesman and managing director Khaled Radhi said in statements to the press here Thursday.
He put the early output at 20 million cu ft daily, saying it would hit 50 million cu ft soon.
The company started producing 15,000 barrels of condensations and light oil from the same fields on May 27, he said.
The gas output will be pumped to the Asala plant at the Al-Ahamadi harbour via a pipeline.
Radhi hailed the move as a “historic achievement” which was brought about by concerted efforts of the company staffers and management over the past years.
The production of liquefied gas constitutes a new qualitative leap towards self-sufficiency in the field of clean energy. It marks a successful completion of KPC’s target for the first stage of gas production.
It is also in line with the estimates of Minister of Electricity and Water and Minister of Oil Mohammad Al-Olaim that Kuwait’s daily output of gas would hit 175 million cu ft and 50,000 barrels of condensations and light oil, he added.