Kuwait Controls Fire At Its Largest Oil Refinery ??? KUNA

DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--State-owned Kuwait National Petroleum Co extinguished fire at the gasoline unit of the country's largest oil refinery, which wounded four workers, state-run Kuwait News Agency, or KUNA, reported Monday, citing a government official.

The fire, which broke out during routine maintenance at Mina al-Ahmadi refinery, was quickly put out, and output and exports weren't affected, KUNA quoted Kuwait's oil sector spokesman Sheikh Talal al-Khaled al-Sabah as saying.

Mina al-Ahmadi processes 460,000 barrels of crude oil a day.

A member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Kuwait pumped 2.28 million barrels of oil in February, a survey by Dow Jones Newswires showed this month.

-By Summer Said, Dow Jones Newswires; +97150-295-1855; summer.said@dowjones.com