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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company, a subsidiary of Kuwait's state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Company, manages the refinery, petrochemicals and LNG import operations of the Azour complex. Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co. is building a new world-class grassroots refinery in Kuwait to produce low-sulfur fuel oil to replace high-sulfur fuel oil used by local power plants. The massive refinery is designed to produce 615,000 barrels per day of Kuwait light crude oil or 535,000 barrels per day of Kuwait heavy crude oil blend. The refinery uses the latest technology that complies with strict environmental regulations to protect the local environment, while producing the latest environmentally friendly ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel for the global market, as well as providing jet fuel, kerosene and naphtha feedstock to petrochemical plants. The Azul refinery will use conventional and proprietary licensed hydroprocessing technologies to convert light and heavy crude oil into low-sulfur fuel oil (LSFO) and light products. This project adopts a modular execution strategy of large-scale off-site pipeline manufacturing and pre-assembled pipe racks and pre-assembled process units (PAR + PAU). Module manufacturing is completed at the COOEC-Fluor manufacturing plant in Zhuhai, China. COOEC-Fluor shipped 188 modules in 20 separate batches, with a total weight of 65,000 metric tons. In addition, more than 95,000 carbon, alloy and stainless steel pipe sections are manufactured at the manufacturing plant. COOEC-Fluor completed the entire module manufacturing project from steel fabrication to final module shipment within 24 months. The company always pays close attention to health, safety and environmental performance during the construction process, and controls the total accident rate to 0.06 and the work-related injury accident rate resulting in lost working hours to 0.02. The 8,600 metric ton final module was shipped and arrived at the project site in Kuwait in December 2019.