Turkish heavy lift and transport specialist Hareket has completed a project at the Duqm Refinery in Oman in which it lifted and installed nine bullet tanks for liquid petroleum gas (LPG).

The critical lifts were engineered, executed and supervised by Hareket and were carried out afely and on time. The Turkish company used two large lattice-boom crawler cranes to engineer a tandem lift, using a 1,600t capacity Demag CC 8800-1 on one end and a 1,250t capacity Demag CC 6800-1 on the other.

The refinery, 600km south of Muscat and part of the $15bn Duqm Special Economic Zone, is a joint venture between Petrofac International Limited and Samsung Engineering Co Limited. The zone is focused on petrochemicals and infrastructure over the next 15 years and is a 1,745 square kilometre area with a 70km coastline on the Arabian Sea.

Heeseok Woo, mechanical superintendent at Petrofac Samsung Engineering JV, which contracted Hareket for the job, said: “We appreciate Hareket’s team for their professionalism in executing the works safely and in time.”