Kuwait City, Nov. 17 -- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 17 visited Kuwait's Al-Zour Refinery, the second largest one in the Middle East, as part of his official visit to the Gulf country.

Construction for the complex started in 2017, and it began commercial operations in late 2022. The project has a total investment of approximately 27 billion USD. The complex, managed and operated by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company, has a design capacity of producing 615,000 barrels per day, accounting for around 43.5% of Kuwait's domestic refining capacity.

In addition to fuel and petrochemicals production, the complex symbolises Kuwait's strategic direction under the "Kuwait Vision 2035" programme, which aims to move from purely oil ...