Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Industries Co. LLC (DRPIC), Muscat—a joint venture of state-owned Oman Oil Co. and Kuwait Petroleum Corp. subsidiary Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd.—has let a contract to Galfar Engineering & Contracting SOAG, through a contractor, for work on DRPIC’s long-planned 230,000-b/d refinery and petrochemical complex to be built in the Duqm Special Economic Zone (SEZAD) in Duqm, Al Wusta Governate, on the southeastern coast of Oman (OGJ Online, Oct. 8, 2018).
As part of the $59.9-million contract, Galfar will deliver mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and piping fabrication works for Saipem SPA’s subpackages A and C for the refinery’s off-site facilities, the service provider said.
Galfar is scheduled to complete its scope of work on the contract in late November 2020.
The contract falls under DRPIC’s award to a consortium of Saipem and McDermott International Inc. (formerly CB&I) of engineering, procurement, and commissioning (EPC) Package 3, covering EPC, commissioning, and operation services for the project’s associated off-site installations, including a product storage and export terminal at Duqm Port, a crude tank farm at Ras Markaz, and an 80-km crude oil pipeline from Ras Markaz to the refinery complex (OGJ Online, Feb. 15, 2018).
Primarily designed to produce and recover naphtha, jet fuel, diesel, and LPG, the Duqm refinery will include units for hydrocracking, hydrotreating, delayed coking, sulfur recovery, hydrogen generation, and Merox treating.
With more than 25% of the nearly $6-billion project now completed, DRPIC said it hopes to launch preliminary test runs at the site by yearend 2021, according to the operator’s web site.
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Robert Brelsford | Downstream Editor
Robert Brelsford joined Oil & Gas Journal in October 2013 as downstream technology editor after 8 years as a crude oil price and news reporter on spot crude transactions at the US Gulf Coast, West Coast, Canadian, and Latin American markets. He holds a BA (2000) in English from Rice University and an MS (2003) in education and social policy from Northwestern University.
