据3月9日Trade Arabia消息：一份报告称，阿曼Duqm地区正在建设一个采用环保技术的炼油厂，耗资42亿美元。
《阿曼时报》报道称，该工厂通过阿曼政府和加拿大商业控股公司之间的公私合作伙伴关系，与Duqm 经济特区管理局(SEZAD)合作，在Duqm港口城镇建造，将使用比传统方法对环境危害更小的技术提炼石油。
援引加拿大商业控股公司董事长兼首席执行官Moses Sumoron的话说，该工厂一旦开始运营，预计每天将生产约30万桶石油。该项目预计将在2023年底生产第一批产品。
该工厂将采用减少石油生产过程中产生硫排放量的技术。报告称，二氧化硫和其他氧化物会导致酸雨，酸雨会损害脆弱的自然生态系统，并通过阻碍树木生长和损害树叶来损害树木。
Solemon说:“为我们的绿色石油精炼厂设计的化学过程试图解决此类问题并填补传统提取过程中的空白，从而使我们即使在加工自然资源时也能够保护地球。”
该公司首席执行官对阿曼政府让CBH建立这家工厂表示感谢，并补充称，这里的绿色提取过程将最大限度地减少此类炼油厂对该国空气、土壤和水质的环境影响。
该公司还计划在阿曼建立一个尿素和氨工厂，利用过剩的二氧化碳生产肥料，这些肥料可以用于该国的农业部门，也可以出口到其他国家，从而减少阿曼从国外进口肥料的需求。
冯娟 摘译自 Trade Arabia
原文如下：
$4.2bn 'green' refinery project planned for Duqm
A refinery employing environment-friendly technology is being set up in Oman's Duqm area at a cost of $4.2 billion, a report said.
The plant, being built in the port town of Duqm through a public-private partnership between the Oman government and Canada Business Holdings, in collaboration with the Special Economic Zone Authority at Duqm (SEZAD), will refine petroleum using technology that is less harmful to the environment than conventional methods, said the Time of Oman report.
The plant is expected to produce about 300,000 barrels of oil a day, once operations begin, it said quoting Moses Solemon, chairman and CEO of Canada Business Holdings. The project is expected to produce its first batch of products towards the end of 2023, he said.
The plant will use technology that reduces, among other hazardous wastes, the amount of sulphur emissions produced during the processing of producing petroleum. Sulphur dioxide and other oxides contribute to acid rain, which could harm fragile natural ecosystems and damage trees by stunting their growth and harming their foliage, the report said.
“The chemical processes designed for our green petroleum refinery attempts to address such issues and fill in the gaps in conventional extraction processes, so that we are able to protect the planet even while processing natural resources,” Solemon said. “It is important we use modern technology responsibly.”
Expressing gratitude to the Omani government for enabling CBH to set up this plant, the company’s CEO added that the green extraction processes here would minimise the environmental impact such refineries have on the quality of air, soil and water in the country.
The company is also looking to build a urea and ammonia plant in the country which will use excess carbon dioxide to make fertiliser that can be used in the country’s agriculture sector, as well as exported to other countries, reducing Oman’s needs to import the same from abroad.
