Sudan taps ONGC for $1.2-billion refinery

Sudanese authorities in Khartoum have awarded a contract to India's state-owned Oil &Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) to construct a $1.2-billion oil refinery at Port Sudan, reported Sudan's Minister of Energy and Mining Awad Ahmed Al-Jazz.

Feb. 14, 2005

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Feb. 14 -- Sudanese authorities in Khartoum have awarded a contract to India's state-owned Oil &Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) to construct a $1.2-billion oil refinery at Port Sudan, reported Sudan's Minister of Energy and Mining Awad Ahmed Al-Jazz.

The 100,000-b/d refinery will refine Nile blend crude oil produced in southern Sudan, and the petroleum products will be exported to south and east African nations.

ONGC will construct the refinery on a build, operate, and transfer (BOT) basis.

Sudan also chose ONGC to build a $200-million multiproduct export pipeline from the Khartoum refinery to Port Sudan on the Red Sea, about 740 km away.

"Work on the pipeline began last week and is expected to be completed by August 2005," Al-Jazz said.