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Emirates Business 24/7 reported that Horizon Terminals Limited, the wholly owned subsidiary of Emirates National Oil Company focused on terminalling operations has signed 10 year Islamic term financing facility of USD 100 million with Standard Chartered Bank, Emirates NBD and Noor Islamic Bank.
The term partly finances the construction of a second 60 kilometers jet fuel pipeline from the new bulk liquid petroleum terminal in the Jebel Ali Free Zone to the Dubai International Airport and its associated storage tank farm with 141,000 cubic meters of capacity. The transaction has a dual tranche of USD and AED.
Mr Saeed Abdullah Khoory CEO of ENOC said that “The new bulk liquid petroleum terminal in Jebel Ali is set to energise Dubai’s fast-growing aviation sector and is of strategic importance to Dubai’s economic diversification initiatives. The Government is focused on further strengthening the city as the region’s tourism and business hub in which the aviation sector has a key role to play in.”
He said that “The financing agreement is a strong testament to the local and international banking sector’s confidence in the project’s business model and strong cash flow potential. This new terminal will support the growing needs of Dubai International Airport, the Al Maktoum International Airport and Dubai’s increasing energy needs as it moves towards further economic growth.”
ENOC has an existing pipeline linked to the Dubai International Airport. With jet fuel requirements expected to increase significantly in the near future, ENOC is building supporting state of the art infrastructure to meet the growing demand through the new USD 142 million terminal. A second pipeline is expected to be commissioned in the second half of 2013 and will also have a connectivity provision to the Al Maktoum International Airport in Jebel Ali.
ENOC is the single largest supplier of jet fuel at the Dubai International Airport, fuelling various passenger and cargo airlines operating out of Dubai. The company has the capability to supply more than 70 airports in the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions.
Most of the jet fuel is sourced from ENOC ‘s refinery in Jebel Ali, which is operating at its full capacity of 120,000 bbls per day. The company is in the process of undertaking a refinery debottlenecking project which will increase its refining capacity to 140,000 bbls per day.
The groundbreaking ceremony of the new bulk liquid petroleum terminal was held recently, with the fully automated terminal scheduled for commissioning in the fourth quarter of 2013. It will have state of the art facilities for receiving jet fuel from marine tankers and from the adjacent Enoc owned refinery. The terminal will also have tanker truck loading facilities connected to oil tanker berths and associated abilities to ensure seamless supply lines to other airports in the UAE.
Horizon Terminals Limited manages more than 5 million CBM of storage with a network of nine terminals located in various markets, including the UAE, Singapore, South Korea, Djibouti and Morocco. It provides world-class terminal services for bulk liquids storage as well as a range of value-added logistics services. It aims to become the largest independent terminal service provider in the bulk oil storage in the Middle East, Africa and the Mediterranean while maintaining a leading position in the Far East region.
Source – Emirates Business 24/7
