Cabinet Accepts Oil Minister’s Resignation
Kuwait’s Cabinet accepted the resignation of the oil minister, who offered to step down to take responsibility for a deadly explosion at an oil field.
Adel Khalid al Sabeeh offered to step down Feb. 2, two days after the explosion in the Rawdatain oil field killed three Indian workers and a Kuwaiti firefighter.
The fire damaged an electrical substation that feeds the northern oil fields, temporarily reducing the country’s production of 1.74 million barrels a day by 600,000 barrels.
Information Minister Sheik Ahmed Fahd al Ahmed al Sabah was chosen to take over the crucial post until a replacement is appointed.
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