Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) announced Sunday that some units of Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery and the gas plant had a drop in refining capacity at 8:00pm that led to an emergency suspension due to the cut of cooling water supply from the Public Authority for Industry.

The company said in a statement that it is communicating with officials at the authority to re-provide the refinery with the cooling water to be able to restart and recover the refining capacity of these units as soon as possible.

Local supplies and export operations have not affected by this emergency suspension, it added.

Source: Kuwait News Agency