{"id":51892,"date":"2016-02-08T21:04:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T03:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51892"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:30:17","slug":"india-keen-to-establish-refinery-bunkering-operations-in-sri-lanka-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/08\/india-keen-to-establish-refinery-bunkering-operations-in-sri-lanka-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIA KEEN TO ESTABLISH REFINERY ,BUNKERING OPERATIONS IN SRI LANKA ..news Item"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

We have been pushed by India to sign peace accord with Tigers and simultaneously blackmailed us to sign the agreement\u00a0 to develop Trinco Tank farm built by British<\/p>\n

The tanks are located far apart and laying pipeline\u00a0 and equipment in the tank farm and jungle clearing is very costly and Indians knew about it that it cannot be developed<\/p>\n

We might as well clean the tanks and repaint them to be used as silos for storing paddy and flour and even cement rather than developing a tank farm as it is very costly\u00a0 !!!!!<\/p>\n

My experience in Oil and Gas Downstream projects in other countries indicate that building new tank farm elsewhere is much more economical<\/p>\n

I was invited by Hon Ministr Fawzi to assist the SOREM project\u00a0 with Iranian funding but it was abandoned which due to sanctions imposed on Iran<\/p>\n

SOREM is the 125000 BPD refinery to be built next to the existing refinery and the land was being acquired to build the refinery<\/p>\n

Now Indians want to build a refinery in Trinco perhaps with coal power\u00a0 Samper is still hanging in the balance with no plans\u00a0 to implement<\/p>\n

They have blocked CPC and prevent CPC in finding a new investor o develop Trinco and Sampur power plant and they want the presence in Hambantota perhaps ?<\/p>\n

They will sign an agreement again and hold us by the b\u2026s and block other investments coming in<\/p>\n

If they want to build a refinery they can do it in Trincoand expand bunkering and bring more super tankers to Trinco not putting their fingers in the south also !!!!!!<\/p>\n

Government should get\u00a0 Chinese to get cheaper funds and American or Middle east to build refinery in Hambantota and establish a Private Public\u00a0 Partnership ( PPP) to manage Bunkering\u00a0 in Hambantota so that local bunker players get a fair chance<\/p>\n

Managing the bunker farm can be done with an international operator running\u00a0 of\u00a0 Hambantotota bunkering farm which has miserably failed due to stubbornness of previous management\u00a0 of SLPA who had some ulterior motives<\/p>\n

It will be like Indians promise their girls and boys at very young age to get engage with a plan to get married in 10-20 years , so that outsiders have no chance even it is for their betterment ,we will get stuck with Indians forever with no chance like in Trinco<\/p>\n

We have to be more broadminded after learning few lessons in Trinco with Indian promises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera We have been pushed by India to sign peace accord with Tigers and simultaneously blackmailed us to sign the agreement\u00a0 to develop Trinco Tank farm built by British The tanks are located far apart and laying pipeline\u00a0 and equipment in the tank farm and jungle clearing is very costly and Indians knew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}