According to Petrofac, the 2018 contract covered engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, training and start-up operations for utilities and offsites. The tank farm provides storage for water, hydrocarbons, benzene and processed crude oil.
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Analysis: The disclosed 33,000-tonne steel requirement demonstrates the significant, concentrated demand that refinery storage infrastructure can generate for steel fabrication and site erection. The scale of the tanks and use of large prefabricated boiler modules also indicate substantial engineering, logistics and installation complexity.
MetalMate analysis- Petrofac reports that the tank farm contains more than 70 steel tanks and covers 30,000 square metres.
- The largest tanks are approximately 60 metres in diameter and 30 metres high, according to Petrofac.
- Three auxiliary boiler modules were fabricated and assembled in northern Italy, each weighing more than 550 tonnes.
- Petrofac states that the refinery processes around 230,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
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- 30 September 2026
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Transforming Duqm – an engineering marvel — Petrofac
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