Oman's Duqm refinery completes start-up, targets commercial ops by year-end

Oman's Duqm refinery completes start-up, targets commercial ops by year-end

From zawya.com

Oman's Duqm refinery has completed its start-up processes and is operator OQ aims to begin commercial operations by year-end, it said on Thursday. "Significant progress has been made in the project's execution, with the start-up phase of the refinery now completed, marked by the production of high sulphur fuel oil (HSFO) – the first shipment of which has already been exported to the U.S.," OQ said in a written statement in response to a Reuters email. Naphtha production has also been achieved, OQ added. Around 95,000 metric tons of HSFO shipped from Duqm is heading to Corpus Christi, Texas, Kpler ship tracking ... (full story)

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