Orpic, Oman Gas Ink Services Agreement

Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) and Oman Gas Company (OGC) signed an agreement for the operation and maintenance of a natural gas liquids extraction plant and associated pipelines, Orpic said July 30.

As per the agreement, OGC will provide dedicated services for the operation and maintenance of Orpic`s natural gas iquids extraction plant located in Fuhud, the upstream of its Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC) project in Suhar. A roughly 300 km 14-inch pipeline connecting the Fuhud plant with the Suhar complex will also be operated and managed by OGC as part of this arrangement, Orpic said.

The services agreement will be implemented over three transitional phases throughout the project lifecycle. Each phase entails different levels of responsibility for OGC and Orpic alike. Orpic NGL is the second processing facility that will be managed by OGC. The two projects will leverage Oman’s natural gas resources and support OGC transformation to become a leading energy infrastructure, the company said.

OGC is also laying a new 32-inch gas pipeline parallel to the existing 32-inch Fuhud-Suhar pipeline to meet the growing gas demand in Suhar Industrial Port and supply gas to Ibri region.