{"id":564049,"date":"2023-03-21T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T04:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=564049"},"modified":"2023-03-21T11:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T05:36:14","slug":"kuwait-oil-company-declares-state-of-emergency-after-oil-spill-on-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kuwait-oil-company-declares-state-of-emergency-after-oil-spill-on-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Oil Company declares &#8216;state of emergency&#8217; after oil spill on land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kuwait Oil Company declared a &#8220;state of emergency&#8221; on Monday following an oil spill on land, in an incident decried by environmental activists as a &#8216;recurring problem&#8217; in the energy-rich Gulf state.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency followed an &#8220;oil leak in the west of the country&#8221;, the state-owned company said in a statement, as video posted by Kuwaiti media showed a gushing pipe surrounded by a large slick of oil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No injuries have occurred as a result of the leak and production has not been affected,&#8221; company spokesman Qusai Al-Amer was quoted as saying, adding that no toxic fumes had been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kuwait Oil Company declared a &#8220;state of emergency&#8221; on Monday following an oil spill on land, in an incident decried by environmental activists as a &#8216;recurring problem&#8217; in the energy-rich Gulf state. The emergency followed an &#8220;oil leak in the west of the country&#8221;, the state-owned company said in a statement, as video posted by Kuwaiti media showed a gushing pipe surrounded by a large slick of oil. &#8220;No injuries have occurred as a result of the leak and production has not been affected,&#8221; company spokesman Qusai Al-Amer was quoted as saying, adding that no toxic fumes had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}