DUBAI: Iranian drones struck Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery on Friday, sparking fires at the facility.

The state-run Kuwait Petroleum Corp. issued a statement on the attack and said firefighters were working to control the blazes.

There were no injuries reported, the company said.

Kuwait operates three oil refineries. Mina al-Ahmadi has come under attack multiple times in the war.

Refineries are key to Kuwait's oil production because, without them, oil wells would have to be shut down for lack of a destination for the oil.

Restarting refineries is extremely time-consuming for safety reasons, and those wells would remain largely inactive until refineries are back online.