Oman’s OQ Group breaks ground on fuel storage facility in Dhofar

OQ breaks ground on fuel storage project in Oman’s Dhofar: Oman’s state-owned OQ Group has broken ground on a OMR 47 mn (USD 124 mn) strategic fuel storage project in Dhofar’s Salalah Port, Oman Observer reports. Construction of the facility is expected to be complete in 36 months.

In numbers: The new facility will have a storage capacity of over 110k cubic meters and cover an area of 150k sqm, the news outlet says. The plant aims to boost Dhofar’s fuel reserves for up to 30 days.

More details: The facility will include storage tanks, a warehouse, a control room, a maintenance workshop, a pumping station, a tanker loading zone, and an administrative building. The project’s key components are a fuel reserve facility in the Salalah freezone, a pipeline linking the pumping station at Salalah Port to the storage facilities in the freezone, and the expansion of pumps at the port.

And there’s more in the pipeline for Oman: Construction of a similar strategic fuel storage project with an expected capacity of up to 14.5k cubic meters is set to begin soon in Oman’s Musandam governorate, Oman’s energy and minerals minister Salim bin Nasser al Aufi said. The facility will boost Oman’s total fuel storage capacity to over 350k cubic meters.