Tuesday 07 / January / 2025
Muscat: Liwa Plastic Industries Complex has started trial operation.
OQ Group has announced the start of performance test at Liwa Plastic Industries Complex in the Wilayat of Sohar.
Liwa Plastic Industries Complex constitutes one of the company’s promising projects for growth in the refineries and petrochemicals sector.
OQ said that this project is a step forward in its vision aimed to secure a sustainable future for energy in the Sultanate through the diversification of products and by upgrading added value from crude oil and liquefied gas. It is aimed to be an important source of economic diversification and employment of Omani youth.
Liwa Plastic Industries Complex, the biggest industrial project in the Sultanate, will enhance the converting industries’ sector. It is for the first time in the Sultanate that the Sultanate produces 880,000 tonnes per annum of polyethylene, the most commonly used plastic in the world and constitutes 40 per cent of total plastic applications.
The complex will also produce 300,000 tonnes of polypropylene, the fastest growing product of its kind in the Sultanate.
OQ Group has nine integrating companies, which are Oman Oil Company; Orpic; Oman Oil Company Exploration and Production; Oman Gas Company; Salalah Methanol Company; Oman Trading International; OXEA; and Salalah Liquified Petroleum Gas, in addition to integrating Duqm Refinery operations.
