6 - Kuwait Oil Company
6 - Kuwait Oil Company
6 - Kuwait Oil Company
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Overview<br />
KOC Recovers 90,000<br />
Barrels of Spilled<br />
<strong>Oil</strong> Per Month<br />
DMD (NK) Capt. Ahmad Al-Rasheed recently commended the exceptional efforts exerted by GC-17<br />
employees in joining hands for the recovery of oil resulting from upstream operations and spills.<br />
Al-Rasheed voiced his pride with the success of young <strong>Kuwait</strong>i staff in designing and implementing<br />
the different phases of recovering, gathering and transferring spilled oil, after purification, to export<br />
lines, therefore asserting their commitment to preserve the national wealth, consecrate their expertise<br />
into preventing spills and their active contribution to protect the environment from pollution.<br />
Speaking before a gathering comprised of Group Managers, Omar Sadeq (Operations) - who<br />
undertook to explain the phases of work in GC-17, Hassan Bunain (Fields Development), Ismael<br />
Abdullah (Corporate Services) and the center’s staff on the occasion of its inauguration, Al-Rasheed<br />
maintained that “What has been achieved by those young people by their own efforts, without<br />
depending on whatever foreign expertise, was an extremely important achievement, a source of pride<br />
for the <strong>Company</strong>, and an example to be followed by its employees and future generations.”<br />
On his side, Maintenance Supervisor (WK) Mahmoud Al-Sayyed explained that the work of the <strong>Oil</strong><br />
Spill Recovery Unit encompasses three oil lakes, the depth of which could reach 10 meters, and<br />
has been equipped for gathering, warming and purifying spilled oil from roughly 1,000 wellheads<br />
scattered around the Directorate, before being dispatched to the Gathering Center.<br />
He added that an average of 90,000 barrels of spilled oil were recovered every month and that work is under<br />
way to apply the best methods of coping with upstream operations and linking recovered oil to export lines.<br />
Such operations are comprised of getting rid of impurities and mud residues created<br />
by drilling works and separating produced water and re-injecting it underground<br />
before sending oil to specialized installations for purification.<br />
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