Qatar Petroleum, a state-owned Qatar company, has for the second time been picked as preferred bidder for the construction of a $2-billion oil refinery in Tunisia’s port of Skhira.
The 30-year, build-own-operate-transfer contract for the 120,000-barrels-per-day greenfield refinery, located 350 kilometers from the capital Tunis, was signed in May in Tunis by representatives of the governments of Tunisia and Qatar. The refinery’s capacity eventually will be increased to 150,000 bpd.