Boskalis Westminster (Oman) said work is underway to complete the construction of the oil dock project in the port of Duqm, with the the stage of drilling on land already completed and work underway in the drilling and deepening in the sea.

The length of the oil dock - which cost about RO200 million ($518 million) is one kilometer equipped with buoys and navigational aids, two berths for big ships and tankers for the export of petroleum and petrochemical products, where each berth accommodates the anchoring of two ships, said Boskalis Westminster (Oman), the executing company of the oil dock project in the port of Duqm (7th Package),

Confirming the success of the stage of the flow of sea water to the dock dedicated to the export of petroleum products, the company said the inspection of the pier has been conducted since mid of January and is currently in the stage of marine engineering, which qualifies it to the final stages after flooding the basin area dedicated to docking with 18-m seawater.

This came during a ceremony organized by the company today (January 23) in the port of Duqm in the presence of a number of officials from the Special Economic Zone Authority in Duqm (Sezad), Duqm Development Company, Duqm Refinery and Port of Duqm, in addition to representatives of the companies executing the project, consulting companies, subcontractors and a team of engineers, reported ONA.

The amount of required drilling is about 26 million cu m of material extracted from the drilling to deepen the port basin, which leads to the oil dock to reach a depth of more than 18m.

Approximately 5 million cubic meters of this material will be used to reclaim and fill the dock site, it added.