Kuwait has upgraded oil processing facilities to increase production of low-sulphur fuel oil as part of intensified plan to curb emissions and protect the environment, a Kuwait oil official was reported on Thursday as saying.

The Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) is now supplying low-sulphur fuel oil to most of its petrol stations in North and South Kuwait, KIPIC spokesman Abdullah Al-Ajami said in a statement published by Alqabas newspaper.

Ajami did not provide project details, but Kuwait has been locked in a multi-billion-dollar programme to upgrade its oil refineries and other treatment facilities.

(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@lseg.com)

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