’Will develop Trincomalee oil tank farm as joint venture with foreign company’: Anura Kumara

Colombo, August 28 (Daily Mirror)-  A future National People's Power (NPP) government will develop the Trincomalee oil tank farm as a joint venture with Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) and a foreign investor, NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said today.

Speaking at a rally in Kanthale, he said a refinery would be constructed in Trincomalee and fuel would be exported through the Trincomalee harbour.

"We have 99 oil storage tanks. We can store 10,000 metric tonnes in one tank and one million MTs in the entire tank farm. We have excessive storage capacity than our requirement. Trincomalee harbour is situated in a strategic location .So, We can be an oil exporting country. We want to establish a refinery in Trincomalee and store refined fuel in our storage tanks and send to the market through the harbour," he said.

Dissanayake said CPC cannot initiate the project alone and added that the NPP government will give life to the Trincomalee oil tank farm as a joint venture with CPC and a foreign investor.

"The Oil tank farm has gone to waste now. We will give life to it," he said.