Burning oil-wells at Al Maqwa in Kuwait in March 1991. Image credit: United Nations/Twitter
Kuwait City - Eastern Saudi beaches were not affected by the leak, according to the statement.
Published: Mon 23 Jan 2017, 10:32 AM
Updated: Mon 23 Jan 2017, 5:17 PM
Kuwait's national oil company has declared a state of emergency over an oil leak in one of its southwestern oil fields.
Monday's statement by the Kuwait Oil Co. did not identify the onshore oil field affected by the leak, which began Sunday.
The state-run Kuwait News Agency said the leak hit the Al Maqwa field.
The company said there's no sign of a toxic gas leak. It offered no details about how many barrels of oil had been spilled.
Eastern Saudi beaches were not affected by the leak, according to an official statement.
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's sixth-largest oil reserves.
In August, Kuwait announced a spill at its Ahmadi field. A February fire struck another oil well after a spill.
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