KUWAIT, Feb 5 (KUNA) -- Preliminary investigations by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) showed that gas leakage was mainly to blame for a recent oil fire , Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC, of which KOC is a subsidiary) said here Friday.
Earlier on Wednesday, a fire took place at a suburb in northern Al-Ahmadi Governorate, causing the injury of a 10-year-ol girl.
"The fire is due to gas leakage at the household gasline network," the KPC said. The KOC is handling the incident in a totally professional manner, in coordination with the anti-fire squad and civil defence authority, the oil sector's spokesman, Sheikh Talal Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, told KUNA.
Once the incident broke out, KOC immediately gauged gas concentration in order to determine where gas leakage exactly took place, and then stopped the flow of gas into houses at the area, he added.
However, the company is still carrying out more checks for the gas network in northern Al-Ahmadi in order to post and repair the leakage source, he pointed out.