Oman Defers Bid Deadline For Sohar Refinery Expansion
Oman has put back the bidding deadline to September for its estimated $1.5bn expansion of the Sohar Refinery from 116,000 b/d to 187,000 b/d capacity by 2015. The expansion includes installing clean fuels units, as well as debottlenecking existing units in the refinery. Bids for engineering, construction and procurement (EPC) contracts were initially requested to be in by 8 August, but have been put back to 6 September.
The front end engineering design (FEED) and project management consultancy (PMC) contracts for expanding the Sohar Refinery complex were awarded in May to CB&I Lummus and Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC). State-owned ORPIC is being formed from previous state-owned firms Oman Refineries and Petrochemicals Company, Aromatics Oman, and Oman Polypropylene. It owns refineries at Sohar and Muscat, as well as aromatics and polypropylene production plants in Sohar (MEES, 20 June).
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