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Iranian oil company invites ship scrappers to tender

Xinhua, April 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) has contacted international ship scrapping companies to break down Sorena floating storage unit in Persian Gulf, Iran's SHANA news agency reported on Wednesday.

The company has sent invitations to the embassies of Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Seri Lanka and Greece to invite their ship scrapping companies to a tender which IOOC is about to hold for dismantling the giant oil storage tanker, IOOC chief Saeid Hafezi was quoted as saying.

IOOC has also called on domestic and other international companies to take part in the tender, Hafezi told SHANA.

Sorena floating storage unit was constructed in 1975 by Mitsubishi and weighs around 41,000 tons.

In 2014, Iran launched a modern storage unit in Persian Gulf to replace Sorena. Endit