OPEC member Kuwait is planning to implement wind power project at its Northern giant Ratqa oilfield to provide electricity to its facilities, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday. 

The project is the first of its kind in Kuwait and involves a pilot wind power plant with a production capacity of 3.6 megawatts, the Arabic language daily Alanba said, citing responsible oil sources. 

The pilot will have the capacity to “light up” 1,100 houses, which means it will be able to power several facilities around the field, the paper said. 

The state-owned Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), which manages the Gulf emirate’s upstream oil operations, has approved the project at Ratqa, one of the world’s largest oilfields with estimated proven reserves of 15 billion barrels. 

“This is the first time that an oilfield in Kuwait will be powered by wind energy...it will start with one trial mill and will be expanded later so all the facilities at and around the field will be powered by wind energy,” the report added. 

(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com) 

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