Sri Lanka unveils six additional oil storage tanks

Sri Lanka's oil distributing monopoly has unveiled six additional storage tanks built by China's Huanqiu Chemical Engineering Corporation at a cost of $ 6.2 mm, officials said. The official Ceylon Petroleum Corporation commissioned the six tanks, each with a capacity of 5,000 cm, at Sapugaskanda near in addition to a farm of six tanks built by the same Chinese firm last year.
"We have got the new tank farm commissioned within the stipulated time and price," said project manager, Sarath Herath. He said the move added new capacity to store diesel and fuel oil. The brand new facility was built by Huanqiu Chemical Engineering Corporation which also carried out the restoration of six more tanks at the Kolonnawa main storage depot which was set ablaze by Tamil rebels in 1995.

The Chinese also refurbished three bigger tanks used for crude oil storage at another depot at Orugodawatte which was also hit by the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels.