WASHINGTON, March 20 US engineering giant Fluor said on Friday it had been asked by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) to cease work on a proposed $15 billion refinery project in the emirate.

Fluor said in a statement that it received notification from KNPC “to stop work on the utilities and offsites for the al-Zour refinery.”

Fluor, the largest publicly traded US engineering firm, has approximately 300 employees performing engineering work on the project, the statement said.—AFP