{"id":235406,"date":"2023-09-03T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=235406"},"modified":"2023-09-03T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:22:11","slug":"sinopec-to-submit-rfp-for-new-refinery-says-sri-lankan-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=235406","title":{"rendered":"Sinopec to submit RFP for new refinery, says Sri Lankan minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Sept 3 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Chinese petroleum company Sinopec will submit a request for proposal (RFP) document to set up a new refinery in Sri Lanka&#8217;s south, said Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lankan minister said this after a meeting with Sinopec officials in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sinopec Refinery officials assured their commitment to establish&nbsp;a new refinery in Hambantota and that they will submit the RFP before the deadline next week,&#8221; Wijesekera said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese company signed an agreement in May to operate fuel stations in the country that faced a severe energy crisis during last year&#8217;s economic and political turmoil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Discussed the progress of retail operations, signing of agreements with dealerships, branding and commencement of islandwide operations,&#8221; Wijesekera said, adding that Sinopec will start operations across Sri Lanka by the end of this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinopec will compete for market share with state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corp and Lanka IOC, a unit of Indian Oil Corp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Sept 3 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Chinese petroleum company Sinopec will submit a request for proposal (RFP) document to set up a new refinery in Sri Lanka&#8217;s south, said Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera on Sunday. The Sri Lankan minister said this after a meeting with Sinopec officials in Colombo. &#8220;Sinopec Refinery officials assured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":235422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235423,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235406\/revisions\/235423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}