Liwa Plastics construction work over 67% completed

MUSCAT: The Omani Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) confirmed that the construction work in Liwa Plastics Industry Project has exceeded the 67 per cent barrier in all four project packages.

This project is one of the largest transformational projects in the Sultanate, which will contribute to improving and increasing the diversity of the production of Orpic, developing its business model and increasing profits, as well as developing the plastic products industry in the Sultanate and providing opportunities for business and employment in the Sultanate, besides providing new opportunities for business development in the Sultanate.

The project is expected to be completed by 2020. The project has achieved 31 million working hours without loss of time and a total of 47 million working hours since the project started, while cumulative progress reached 67.8 per cent compared to 69.8 per cent planned until the end of last June.

The total value of the project is $6.7 billion, with $1.5 billion being allocated as an added domestic value. The engineering, procurement and construction activities of this project extend over a period of 4 years until its launch in 2020, which will add greater value to the local value of the Oman through the efforts of the local value added management team at Orpic, which works together with key contractors for the four project packages.

Plastic production in the Sultanate is expected to rise after the operation of the Liwa Plastic Industries Complex at a rate of more than 2 million tonnes, which raises the production of Orpic of polypropylene and polyethylene to 1.4 million tonnes.

Through its operations in its integrated complex in Sohar, which includes refineries, aromatics plant, steam cracking unit, polypropylene and polyethylene plants, Orpic will become one of the most effective companies in the merger refineries and petrochemical industries in the world, which will enable the company to achieve the maximum value of the Sultanate’s production of hydrocarbons.

Dr. Hilal bin Abdullah Al Hinai, Director General of Support Services at Orpic said that the project will provide the labour market with more job opportunities, training and supporting small and medium enterprises through many local contracts.-ONA