Sohar Refinery Oman Refinery Company

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: ORPC
  • Website: http://www.orpc.co.om/
  • Location: Oman
  • Capacity: 9.8 million tons/annum & 187,000 bbl/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

Products Produced

  • -

Projects

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
  • 2017 - Expansion project completed

Links

  1. Daelim Oil and Gas Projects
  2. JGC Refinery References
  3. Processes at Sohar Refinery
  4. Oman SRIP Site Achieves Mechanical Completion
  5. Commemorative Event for Completion of Oman SRIP Site Held