{"id":12021,"date":"2024-09-30T04:06:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T04:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=12021"},"modified":"2024-09-30T04:06:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T04:06:52","slug":"kuwait-declares-state-of-emergency-over-oil-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/12021\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait declares state of emergency over oil leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Kuwait&#8217;s national oil company has declared a state of emergency over an oil leak in one of its southwestern oil fields.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s statement by the Kuwait Oil Co. did not identify the onshore oil field affected by the leak, which began Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run Kuwait News Agency said the leak hit the Al Maqwa field.<\/p>\n<p>The company said there&#8217;s no sign of a toxic gas leak. It offered no details about how many barrels of oil had been spilled.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Saudi beaches were not affected by the leak, according to an official statement.<\/p>\n<p>OPEC member Kuwait is a major oil producer. The US Energy Information Administration says Kuwait produces some 2.7 million barrels of crude oil a day and holds the world&#8217;s sixth-largest oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Kuwait announced a spill at its Ahmadi field. A February fire struck another oil well after a spill.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2024-09-30T04:06:52+00:00\"> 30 September 2024<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kuwait&#8217;s national oil company has declared a state of emergency over an oil leak in one of its southwestern oil fields.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,23,46,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-12021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hse","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}