(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Three ministers inspected on Sunday the burning oil well in the northern region of Al-Rawdatain examining in particular procedures that have been taken to "restore conditions to normal," announced Kuwait Oil Company.
The senior officials are Hani Hussein, the Minister of Oil and Acting Minister of Awqaf, Minister of Finance and Acting Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf and Minister of Electricity and Water and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Abdulaziz Al-Ibrahim.
KOC Chairman Sami Al-Rushaid and company officials received the three ministers upon their arrival at the site of the burning well, (technically known as RA-484).
Ayyad Al-Kanderi, the head of the team tasked with putting out the fire, informed the ministers about the process to extinguish the blazes since start of the leakage.
He declared that production at the oil sites in northern Kuwait restored the pre-accident level of output, 670,000 barrels per day.
Monitoring devices for gas leakage, installed at the well and other oil installations in the country, "continue to read zero," the KOC statement said, citing Al-Kanderi as saying during the inspection visit.
The team involved in the operation has reached "a spot close to the head of the burning well after removal of most of the debris and ending the cooling process," Al-Kanderi explained.
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