The Korea Gas Corporation(KOGAS) said Wednesday that it launched trial operations of a liquified natural gas(LNG) plant in Al-Zour, Kuwait. 

According to the firm, the plant is equipped with eight tanks that can store 220-thousand kiloliters of LNG and has the capacity to deliver 22 million tons of LNG annually. 

The corporation said in terms of equipment capacity, the Al-Zour plant ranks fifth in the world. 

The LNG project in Kuwait is run by a team of South Korean financial institutions, a construction consortium and a group of 130 small firms. KOGAS is tasked with doing a test run of the plant and carrying out education programs.