On Sunday, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) said four people, including three firemen, had been injured in a fire which broke out following an oil leak in a pump line coming out of a Burgan field oil well ...

The fire was among the most devastating incidents in Kuwait's history. Situated between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait possesses approximately seven percent of the world's known oil reserves.

Judy Schreiner details her trip through Saudi Arabia into war-torn Kuwait in the aftermath of the Gulf War to document the rebuilding work as well as efforts to bring the nation's heavily damaged oil ...

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Meanwhile Iraqi forces also blew up hundreds of oil wells, burning through as many as one billion barrels as fires blazed throughout the year. Photojournalist Steve McCurry was in Kuwait in 1991.

Oil-rich Kuwait has large numbers of foreign workers, many of them from South and Southeast Asia, and mostly working in construction or service industries. A source in the fire department said the ...

Throughout its history, KOC has not only led in oil exploration and production but has also demonstrated its commitment to ...

The fire broke out on Wednesday in a building ... Umaruddeen Shameer from Kerala's Kollam district worked as a driver for an oil company in Kuwait. His family is stunned after hearing about ...

New Delhi The devastating blaze in Kuwait that killed 49 people, mostly Indian workers, has been described as the worst building fire in the country’s history, triggering a crackdown by the ...

particularly after one example was used to put out a fire at the 168 Algyo oil well in 1968. Big Wind on the ground in Kuwait, extinguishing a burning oil well. Credit: Getty Images Decades later ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that Kuwait’s economy will remain in a recession due to the ongoing OPEC+ oil production cuts. “The economy is projected to remain in ...