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Trincomalee Oil Installation:
The scenic port of Trincomalee, located on the north eastern coast of Sri Lanka, is about 250 km from Colombo and is one of the finest harbours in the world and occupies a strategic position in the Bay of Bengal. The completely sheltered natural harbour, the port has 2023 harbour area of water and 5261 harbour area of land. Trincomalee harbour is one of the 5th largest all weather, non tidal natural harbour in
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56 kilometers shoreline, making this tank farm most effective for fuel receipt, storage and supply. The harbour limit is a line joining Clappenburg and Elephant Point. Within this limit the harbour comprises (from west to east) Malay Clove, China Bay and Cod Bay; Yard Cove, Powder Bay, Town Bay and Nicholsan Cove. The cargo berths are located in Malay Cove, China Bay and Cod Bay.
A new multi-purpose alongside berth (MPAB) in the Ashraff Quay built at a cost of Rs. 1.3 billion with a capacity to accommodate multi-purpose vessels of upto 40000 DWT was opened in August 2002. The port and its facilities are being upgraded to accommodate large ocean going vessels.
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The Oil Installation:
The historic China Bay Oil Tank Farm at Trincomalee, formerly operated by Ceylon Petroleum Corporation was taken over by Lanka IOC Limited on a 35 years lease in February 2003. The oil terminal has 99 tanks with a storage capacity of 1.2 million kilo litres. It stocks vital petroleum products such as petrol and diesel. The China Bay tank farm is of strategic significance, being the largest tank farm located between West Asia and |
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| Singapore. The Trincomalee Oil Terminal has a jetty for berthing tankers up to 30,000 dwt connected to tank farm, split as lower and upper tank farms. Both the tankage and jetty are of World War II vintage and are more than 80 years old. The oil jetty consists of three gravity type dolphin structures interconnected by walkways and connected to the shore by an approach trestle. |
Future Plans:
We plan to develop China Bay tanks on need basis depending on the volume of the downstream market operations in the country. The first phase of refurbishment has already been completed at a cost of Rs 600 million.
LIOC has plans to modernize the existing facilities including providing modern safety and fire fighting equipments and in addition a Lube Blending Plant of capacity 18000 tons per annum is already under construction and is likely to be commissioned by July 2007 |
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