MUSCAT: Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries (Orpic) said that it will lay the foundation-stone for the Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) extraction station in Fahud on April 27. The $688 million project is the third part of Liwa Plastics Industries Complex. The first and second parts of Liwa Plastics Industries Complex in Sohar Industrial Port included steam cracking unit built at a cost of $2.8 billion, and polypropylene and polyethylene production unit at a cost of $888 million.
The fourth part includes the 300-km pipeline to transport natural gas liquids from Fahud station to Sohar Industrial Port at a cost of $112 million. Dr Hilal bin Abdullah al Hinai, General Manager of Corporate Support Services at Orpic, said in a statement to ONA that the natural gas fluids that will be extracted from the Fahud station will form 60 per cent of the raw material for Liwa Plastics Industries Complex, and the operation of the station will start when the operation of other three parts of Liwa Plastics Industries Complex start by 2020. — ONA
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