Sohar Refinery
Summary Information
- Ownership: ORPC
- Website: http://www.orpc.co.om/
- Location:
- Capacity: 5.8 million tons/annum & 116,000bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Residue Fluidised Catalytic Cracking - 75,260 bpd
- LPG Merox Process Unit
- Kerosene Merox Process Unit - 12,320 bpd - UOP
- Diesel Hydro-Desulphurization Unit
- Indirect Alkylation Unit
- Propylene Recovery Unit
- Hydrogen Generation Unit - 1,900,000 Nm3/day
- Sour Water Stripping Unit
- Amine Regeneration Unit
- Sulphur Recovery Unit
- Gasoline Hydro-Desulphurization Process Unit - 26,500 bpd - Axens
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Oman Export Blend Crude Oil
- Residue from Mina Al Fahal Refinery
Products Produced
- -
Ongoing Projects
- For details see Sohar Refinery Project
- The refinery is being expanded
Other Information
- A 266km pipeline has also been built to transport fuel and crude oil from the Mina Al-Fahal facility to the Sohar refinery
- The Sohar refinery cost $1.3bn, which was 90% financed by debt through a series of loans from a number of financial institutions, including Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (direct loan of $261.9m), Nippon Exports Insurance Company ($261.9m), Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi and a further ten banks ($907.8m).
- The engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the project was awarded to a Japanese consortium (JGC Corporation and Chiyoda) in July 2003
- JGC Corporation had already carried out the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the refinery in 2000
History
- 2006 - Refinery Commissioned
- 2007 - Sohar Refining Company merged with ORPC
Relevant Links
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