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Oman considers major oil storage outside Hormuz strait

Khaleej Times(Reuters) -- Oman is considering building a facility to store up to 200 million barrels of crude safely outside the Strait of Hormuz, the head of a state-run oil investment company said on Wednesday.
The proposed facility would be larger than any other tank farm in the world. Working crude storage capacity at Cushing in the United States is around 62 million barrels.

Iran has repeatedly threatened to block the narrow shipping lanes between Oman and Iran through which over a third of all sea-borne traded oil is shipped each day, as tensions with the West over Teheran’s nuclear plans have intensified.

Oman is now studying whether there is still enough interest from oil producers and traders to merit building a storage complex on the Arabian Sea coast of south-east Oman.

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Submitted Oct 15, 2012 By: NOTSOGRN

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