CAIRO  - Kuwait's Al-Zour oil refinery is expected to go into operation in 2020 with a refining capacity of 615,000 barrels per day, the Kuwaiti oil ministry said on Monday.

The news came in a statement by the head of the institutional planning team at Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co (KIPIC), in which he said that 76 percent of the project has been completed.

 

(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah; Editing by Jan Harvey)