OOTO starts operations at Oman storage facilties

01 October 2008 10:40  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--Oiltanking Odfjell Terminals & Co (OOTO) has started operations at the first phase of its bulk liquid storage facilities at Sohar, Oman, the company said on Wednesday.

OOTO said in a statement it had put 322,000 cubic metres (cbm) of capacity into operation to cater for the storage and handling of clean petroleum products and chemicals.

Total capacity will be 842,500 cbm once construction is complete.

OOTO will commission an additional 216,500 cbm by the end of the year and another 304,000 cbm in the first and second quarters of 2009, it said.

Part of OOTO’s capacity will be dedicated for the storage and handling of feedstock and produced product for a world-scale aromatics plant also located at Sohar.

OOTO’s tank terminal has multiple pipeline connections to the 116,000 bbl/day refinery, it said.

The Sohar terminal is located close major international shipping lanes just outside the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman.

OOTO is a joint venture of Oiltanking Odfjell Oman with 70%, Oman Oil Co with 25% and a private investment company with 5%.

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By: Hilde Ovrebekk
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