Oman oil ministry: 'No one on this side of the panel is aware of this investment in Sri Lanka'

阿曼石油部：“專家組這邊沒有人知道對斯里蘭卡的投資。”

Oman's oil ministry denied being part of a $3.85 billion plan to build an oil refinery in Sri Lanka, a day after the government in Colombo announced the country's participation.

阿曼石油部否認參與了一項耗資38.5億美元在斯里蘭卡修建煉油廠的計劃，此前一天，科倫坡政府宣佈該國參與了該計劃。

Sri Lankan officials told a news conference on Tuesday that a joint venture between the Oman oil ministry and a Singapore investment vehicle owned by India's Accord Group had agreed to build the 200,000 barrel per day refinery near Chinese-controlled Hambantota port on the island's south coast.

斯里蘭卡官員週二在一次新聞發佈會上表示，阿曼石油部與印度雅閣集團（Accord Group）旗下的新加坡投資資企業已同意在該島南部海岸中國控制的漢班託塔港附近建造1000萬噸/年的煉油廠。

The ministry was to take a 30 percent stake, the officials said, representing what would be Sri Lanka's biggest single foreign direct investment.

官員們表示，阿曼將持有30%的股份，這將是斯里蘭卡最大的單一外國直接投資。

“No one on this side of the panel is aware of this investment in Sri Lanka,” Salim al-Aufi, undersecretary of Oman's ministry of oil and gas, told a news conference on Wednesday.

阿曼石油天然氣部副部長薩利姆·奧菲（salim al-aufi）週三在一次新聞發佈會上說：“高層沒有人知道對斯里蘭卡的投資。”

“It came as news to me, I don't know who is signing the check for $3.8 billion.”

“這對我來說是個新聞，我不知道是誰簽了38億美元的支票。”

An industry source familiar with the discussions said that there had been talks concerning the project that involved Oman but that they were at an early stage.

一位熟悉討論的業內人士表示，曾就涉及阿曼的項目進行過談判，但談判還處於早期階段。

The Director General of Sri Lanka's state-run Board of Investment, Champika Malalgoda, said after the Oman government denial that as far as she was concerned the deal announced on Tuesday was still going ahead.

斯里蘭卡國營投資委員會（Champika Malalgoda）總幹事在阿曼政府否認週二宣佈的交易仍在進行後表示。

“We approved the project for a joint venture of Singapore company and Oman,” she said, with the Oman taking a 30 percent stake in the refinery venture.

“我們批准了新加坡公司和阿曼的合資項目，”她說，阿曼持有該煉油廠30%的股份。

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