Kuwait to start building world's largest petroleum research centre at end of 2022

The centre will aim to improve production methods and refining techniques, said the country's oil ministry

Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Nawaf inaugurates an environmental fuel project set up by state oil company KNPC in March 2022. AFP

Kuwait will begin to establish the world’s largest centre for petroleum research at the end of this year.

The announcement was made by the Gulf country’s oil ministry on Wednesday.

The centre will be built in the city of Al Ahmadi. It will comprise 28 technological laboratories and hire more than 600 employees, the ministry said on Twitter.

It will provide solutions to problems involved in the production and refining of heavy crude, as well as improve production methods and refining techniques at local and international levels, the ministry said.