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DMEA REFINING DMEA

Key equipment arrives at Oman’s

Duqm oil refinery

OMAN THE Netherlands’ Mammoet, a specialist in “We are delighted to have successfully com-
engineered heavy lifting and transport equip- pleted our scope for the Duqm refinery. The
Omani officials insist ment, has delivered key equipment to a 230,000 close collaboration with the entire project team,
the project is on barrel per day (bpd) refinery under construction including our clients, the Port of Duqm and
schedule. in the port of Duqm in Oman, it said on June 24. the local authorities, enabled us to successfully
Mammoet secured a contract from a local deliver all key equipment safely and within the
manufacturer covering inland and sea trans- deadlines set,” the general manager of Mam-
port of nine LPG storage tanks. The 780-tonne moet’s Oman branch, Vishal Buddhadev, said in
storage tanks were built at a fabrication yard in a statement.
Sohar and then loaded onto a barge for shipment Meanwhile WEG, a Brazilian manufac-
to Duqm. From Duqm, they were transported 25 turer of rotating electrical machines and drives,
km by Mammoet to the project site. announced this week it had won contracts at
Once at the refinery, they were positioned by both Duqm and Oman’s Ras Markaz oil storage
Mammoet using 1,500-tonne and 1,250-tonne facility. The company hailed the Duqm deal is
capacity cranes. one of its largest ever in the Middle East.
“By managing the complete logistics chain WEG will deliver a range of energy-efficiency
from the fabrication yard to the Duqm refinery, hazardous area motors and drives to equip the oil
Mammoet was able to ensure timely and safe refinery with power to its pumps, compressors
delivery of the bullets,” it said. and blowers.
The company received a second contract The Duqm refinery is a joint Oman-Kuwait
from Kuwait’s Agility Global Logistics for venture and is due to come on stream by the end
the transport of reactors. One of the reactors of 2021. Omani officials recently insisted that this
weighed 1,130 tonnes, making it the heaviest remained the schedule, despite the coronavirus
cargo ever to be unloaded at Duqm. (COVID-19) crisis. The lead contractors behind
Mammoet has also deployed hydraulic and the project are the UK’s Petrofac, South Korea’s
crawler cranes to assist other subcontractors at Samsung Engineering and Daewoo, Spain’s Tec-
the project. nicas Reunidas and Italy’s Saipem. ™

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