Duqm Refinery is an

oil refinery An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial processes, industrial process Factory, plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refining, refined into useful products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt, asphalt ...

under construction at the port town of

Duqm Duqm ( ar, ٱلدُّقْم, Ad-Duqm) is a port town on the Arabian Sea in central-eastern Oman. As of 2010, the population was 11,200. History Duqm was a small fishing settlement of the Janubah tribe on the coast of southern Oman, when a party ...

in central-eastern

Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of ...

, expected to have a 230,000 barrels per day (bpd capacity). It is owned and operated by Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company (DRPIC), a joint venture between OQ, a subsidiary of the Government of Oman, and Kuwait Petroleum International, a subsidiary of

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Kuwait Petroleum Corporation ( ar, مؤسسة البترول الكويتية) is Kuwait's national oil company, headquartered in Kuwait City. The activities of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) are focused on petroleum exploration, prod ...

. As of November 2022, Kuwait Petroleum International announced that the project was 95% complete, and that Duqm Refinery is expected to commence commercial operations by the end of 2023.

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