KUWAIT CITY, 25 April 2005 — Kuwait has decided to build a new 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery to boost capacity to about 1.5 million bpd, an oil executive said in comments published yesterday. Work on the new refinery, the fourth in the emirate, is scheduled to start in 2007 and production will begin in early 2010, Project Manager Ahmad Al-Jeemaz told Al-Anbaa newspaper.

