Oman’s Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) recently floated an EPCC (engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning) tender for its facilities at a refinery near Muscat.

The tender on a call-off basis for the Mina Al Fahal refinery also includes a polypropylene plant and aromatics plant in Sohar and Raysut Terminal in Salalah, said an Oman Observer report.

Orpic’s Muscat-Sohar Products Pipeline (MSPP) and Al Jifinan Terminal project will connect the company’s existing Mina Al Fahal refinery with refineries in Sohar via a new two-way, 290-km, multi-product pipeline valued at $320 million.

“Delivery of Orpic’s MSPP project is in line with our strategic growth plan to revolutionise the way we operate our oil product logistics model — focusing on a higher standard of efficiency, lower costs, eliminating safety and security hazards, improving environmental impacts and serving the sultanate,” Musab Al Mahrouqi, Orpic CEO, said.