Port of Duqm is facilitating the Duqm refinery project’s cargo for the discharge of nine massive liquefied petroleum gas storage tanks (bullets) under Khimji Ramdas Shipping.
Petrofac, a 50:50 joint venture with Samsung Engineering, was awarded Package 2 of the engineering, procurement and construction contract of the Duqm refinery project.
The nine bullets will be loaded on a barge and transported in three different shipments to the Port of Duqm. They are fabricated and loaded at the Larsen & Toubro LLC Oman facility in Sohar and towed on a barge to the port. Mammoet, a global market leader in heavy lift transportation, will be looking after its pickup and delivery to the Duqm refinery.
The bullets weigh approximately 780 metric tonnes each and are 72 metres long, 8 metres wide and 11 metres in height. It is one of the longest and heaviest cargoes ever discharged at Port of Duqm and the operations were carried out by a roll-on roll-off module.