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and expansion project will reduce the production of heavy products,
and increase the production of high quality light products.
The project includes adding a new 82,000 b/d crude distillation
unit, 95,000 b/d vacuum distillation unit, 34,000 b/d hydrocracker,
34,000 b/d hydrotreater and 36,000 b/d delayed coker unit.
Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company (DRPIC)
has selected Shaw Energy and Chemicals as the project management
consultant for the $6 billion, 230,000 b/d refinery and petrochemicals
complex. The project is a joint venture owned by state-owned Oman
Oil Company (OOC) and Abu Dhabi’s state-owned International
Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC). The refinery, which is
considered the phase-1 of the project, is scheduled for start up in
2017, and will be followed by phase-2, a petrochemicals plant,
which is still under studying.
