Oman’s Duqm refinery works are nearly 92 percent complete, according to the country’s state energy holding company, OQ.
In a social media post, OQ said the estimated $7 billion project saw 91.86 percent progress on engineering, procurement and construction by the end of May.
Nawaf Saud al-Sabah, Kuwait Petroleum International CEO, speaking in April 2021 had said that the mechanical completion of the project could, however, be delayed until 2023 due to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The formal ground-breaking ceremony for the project was held in April 2018. The project is operated by a joint venture between OQ and KPI, Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Industries.
The Duqm refinery project is expected to have the capacity to refine 230,000 barrels a day of crude to primarily produce diesel, naphtha, jet fuel and liquefied petroleum gas.
The EPC works at Duqm refinery are divided into three separate packages. The scope of EPC package one includes the process units, and it was won by a JV of Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas and South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Construction.
EPC package two comprises the utilities and offsite facilities and was awarded to UK-based Petrofac and South Korea’s Samsung Engineering. EPC package three includes the product export terminal at Duqm port, the Duqm refinery dedicated crude storage tanks at Ras Markaz and the 80-kilometre interconnecting pipeline from these tanks to the refinery.
The third parcel went to a JV between Italy’s Saipem and US-based Chicago Bridge & Iron, a subsidiary of McDermott International.
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