Sohar Refinery Oman Refinery Company

Summary Information

• Ownership: ORPC
• Website: http://www.orpc.co.om/
• Location:
• Capacity: 5.8 million tons/annum & 116,000bbl/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

• [[[Oman Export Blend Crude Oil]]]
• The crude oil is supplied by the [[[Mina Al Fahal Sohar Crude Oil Pipeline]]]
• Residue from [[[Mina Al Fahal Refinery]]]

+++ Products Produced

• -

+++ Ongoing Projects

• For details see [[[Sohar Refinery Project]]]
• The refinery is being expanded

+++ 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

Links

1. JGC Refinery References
2. Processes at Sohar Refinery