Sri Lanka’s Trinco Petroleum Terminal Ltd, a joint venture between state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and India’ Lanka IOC, plans to invest up to 70 million dollars in refurbishing 61 oil tanks in Trincomalee, an official said.
TPTL has control of 51 tanks in a World War II era tank farm in a 600 acre land by the Trincomalee port in North Eastern Sri Lanka. The tank farm has 99 tanks of which 15 is operated by Lanka IOC. The balance is expected to be used by CPC.
In the first phase 10 tanks with a capacity of 10,000 metric tonnes each will be refurbished and pipelines for white and black oils will be laid Managing Director of Lanka IOC Manoj Gupta said during Sri Lanka’s Colombo International Maritime & Logistics Conference.
