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BPGIC plans to make the Fujairah Phase Three facility operational in 2022.

Design for BPGIC terminal, refinery ready

01 August 2020

Brooge Energy (formerly Brooge Holdings), through its subsidiary Brooge Petroleum and Gas Investment Company (BPGIC), has announced that the final basic design for the company’s planned Phase Three oil storage terminals and refinery has been completed by MUC Oil & Gas Engineering Consultancy and handed over to the group.

A midstream oil storage and service provider strategically located outside the Strait of Hormuz, adjacent to the Port of Fujairah in the UAE, Brooge Energy said the completion of the basic design progresses BPGIC’s plan to develop up to 3.5 million cu m of storage capacity, the equivalent of 22 million barrels. It is targeting the Phase Three facility to be operational in late 2022.

The company had in April appointed MUC Oil & Gas Engineering Consultancy to complete the basic design and front-end engineering design (Feed) study for its planned 180,000-barrels-per-day (bpd) refinery and the Phase Three oil storage facility in Fujairah.

BPGIC is a key independent storage provider conveniently situated on the east coast port of Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, which owns capacity to store clean petroleum products and fuel oil using some of the latest technology to maximise company performance and efficiency, while reducing operating costs, said the company.

Through the development of its second and third phase facilities, it is also building capacity to store crude oil using similar technology, it stated.

Nicolaas L Paardenkooper, CEO of Brooge Energy and BPGIC, said: “Our vision is to build the largest oil storage and be the best service provider in the Port of Fujairah in the UAE,.

“Once Phase Three is completed, this would bring our total storage capacity up to 4.5 million cu m, which is the equivalent of 28.3 million barrels of oil,” remarked Paardenkooper.