MOSCOW (MRC) -- Indonesian state oil and gas company PT Pertamina has appointed a unit of China's Sinopec to process crude oil from Iraq, Daniel Purba, a senior vice president said, as per Reuters.
Unipec will process 1 MMbbl of Iraqi crude oil per month at a refinery in China from July to December, Purba said.
"They gave the best offer, better than the previous refinery in Singapore," he said.
As MRC informed earlier, Pertamina and Russia's Rosneft signed a framework deal this week on an oil refinery in Indonesia. Pertamina has been looking for a development partner for the USD12-billion Tuban refinery project.
Pertamina is an Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas corporation based in Jakarta. It was created in August 1968 by the merger of Pertamin (established 1961) and Permina (established 1957). Pertamina is the world's largest producer and exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) is a super-large petroleum and petrochemical enterprise group established in July 1998 on the basis of the former China Petrochemical Corporation. Sinopec Group's key business activities include the exploration and production of oil and natural gas, petrochemicals and other chemical products, oil refining.
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