Kuwait will begin building a $3.5-billion 450,000 barrels per day refinery in 2007, the head of state-owned Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) said.

The ecologically-friendly plant, which will produce cleaner fuels for Kuwait’s power generation plants, should be completed by 2010, KNPC chief executive officer and managing director Sami Rushaid told state news agency Kuna.
Rushaid was speaking to reporters after KNPC signed a project management consultant (PMC) deal with US engineering and construction firm Fluor Daniel.
Fluor will provide administrative as well as consultative services to the new refinery project and to a project to expand and upgrade Kuwait’s current refineries, Kuna said.