MOSCOW (MRC) -- Oman state refiner Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) has shut its Sohar refinery for a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Oman informed that the refinery was taken off-stream on 23 February and it is likely to remain shut for a period of around 2 months.
Located at Sohar in Oman, the refinery has a crude processing capacity of 117,000 bpd.
We remind that, as MRC wrote before, in 2014, Orpic selected LyondellBasell's Spheripol polypropylene process technology for a new 300,000 tpy polypropylene (PP) plant to be built in Sohar, Sultanate of Oman. Start-up of the Liwa plastics project is planned for 2018.
Besides, in May 2014, Orpic said it had awarded two contracts for construction of a USD3.6 billion plastics production complex, the Liwa Plastics Project. The plant will be built in Oman's northern industrial city of Sohar, next to Orpic's oil refinery and petrochemical plants. The Liwa Plastics Project is due to be completed in 2018, doubling Orpic's profitability by allowing it to extract more value from Omani crude oil and natural gas.
The project will boost Orpic's annual production of PP and polyethylene (PE) to 1.4 million tonnes, increasing Oman's exports, while additional production of 1 million tonnes of plastics will help to develop downstream industries within the country.
Orpic (Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company) is one of the leading companies in Oman and has two refineries in that country, in Sohar and Muscat. ORPIC is owned by the Government of the Sultanate of Oman and Oman Oil Company SAOC, the trading company created by the Government of the Sultanate of Oman for managing investments in the energy sector.
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