Orpic wins Downstream Project of the Year award 2018

Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) received the ‘Downstream Project of the Year’ award, at the Oil and Gas Middle East and Refining and Petrochemicals Middle East (RPME) Awards on September 12, 2018 in a prestigious event in Dubai, UAE for its Muscat Suhar Product Pipeline Project and Al Jefnain Terminal.

Andres Suarez, GM Logistics — Orpic commented on this prestigious win: “This highly commended Downstream Project of the Year award comes to demonstrate the importance of Muscat Suhar Product Pipeline and Al Jefnain Terminal not only for Orpic but for the whole logistics infrastructure in Oman. This is, without a doubt, a great achievement for Orpic but, at the same time, a huge responsibility to keep on the hard work towards achieving Orpic’s vision be a globally competitive, downstream business that Oman is proud of.

The $336 million investment is an important logistic project across the Sultanate which delivers more than 70 per cent of Oman’s fuel via the stateof-the-art storage facility in Al Jefnain. In addition to meeting the domestic future demand for fuels, this project reduces pollution resulting from lower truck movements in Muscat by 70 per cent.

On the In-country value (ICV) front, MSPP has contributed by $149 million to Omani local purchases and SMES, representing 44 per cent out of the total project cost. With around 170,000 cubic metres of storage capacity, the new terminal increases the nation’s storage capacity for refined products by 70 per cent. This additional capacity enhances the securing of fuel supply to the population.

The new terminal is equipped with 16 loading bays with capacity to load up to 700 trucks per day with products to be transported across petrol stations. Furthermore, the new terminal is supplied by two multiproduct and bidirectional pipelines connected to Orpic’s Suhar and Muscat Refineries, which are the safest and most efficient transport media for oil products for medium distances. Muscat Suhar Product Pipeline and Al Jefnain Terminal constituted of state-of-theart control systems with latest SCADA technology, leak detection, and telecommunications network.

It is worth to mention that the ‘Downstream Project of the Year’ award target projects with improved efficiency and those which create demand for higher value petrochemical products across the Middle East. The Downstream Project of the Year award aimed for the most outstanding, ambitious and game-changing project in the refining and petrochemicals manufacturing industries in the Middle East.