VOL. XLVI

No 21

26-May-2003

OMAN

JGC/Chiyoda Win Contract To Build 116,000 B/D Sohar Refinery

Japans JGC announced on 20 May that it, in partnership with Chiyoda, had won an $880mn contract to construct an oil refinery at Sohar, 250km northwest of Muscat. Four other bidders (LG Engineering/Foster Wheeler, Samsung Engineering/Technip, Hyundai Engineering/Toyo, and MG Engineering/SK Engineering) had been shortlisted for the project (MEES, 2 December 2001). A JGC statement said that the major...