Flames broke out in parts of Kuwait’s main Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery early Friday morning after multiple Iranian drone strikes.
However, no casualties were reported by the administration in the attack.
The Mina al-Ahmadi refinery, one of the largest in the Middle East, has the capacity to refine about 346,000 barrels of oil per day.
Kuwait has three major oil refineries. The Mina al-Ahmadi refinery has been targeted twice before by Iranian drones during the five-week conflict.
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said emergency and firefighting teams were working to contain the fire in some of the refinery’s 39 operational units and prevent it from spreading.
The statement added that air quality in the affected area is being monitored and so far there has been no impact on the local environment.
On the other hand, the UAE Ministry of Defense says that the country is facing a new wave of missile and drone attacks.
A statement issued by the Ministry of Defense has expressed that it is under the influence of new missile and drone attacks from Iran.
The ministry wrote in a message on X that ‘the country’s air defense systems are busy intercepting and destroying missiles and drones.’
The UAE says that the sounds heard in some parts of the country are the result of operations taken to intercept these same attacks.
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