FLORENCE, ITALY -- April 17, 2006 :- GE's Oil & Gas business will supply 12 fixed bed reactors for a new refinery project to be developed by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) in Al Zour, Kuwait.
When completed in 2010, the new greenfield facility -- designed for Kuwait heavy crude/Kuwait export crude oil processing -- will be the largest refinery in the Middle East, with a capacity to process 615,000 barrels per day of Kuwait export crude oil.