SEMBCORP Industries’ (Sembcorp) subsidiary Sembcorp Utilities (Oman) has signed a joint venture agreement with Takamul Investment Company (Takamul), a subsidiary of Oman Oil Company, to develop centralised utilities facilities for the Duqm Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

Takamul and Sembcorp’s 65-35 joint venture entity, Centralised Utilities Company (CUC), will serve as a one-stop provider of a range of centralised utilities such as power, steam, water, sewage treatment and on-site logistics on a captive basis to multiple industrial customers in the Duqm SEZ in southern Oman.

CUC’s customers will include anchor customer Oman Oil Company, which is developing a 230,000-barrels-per-day (bpd) refinery targeted to begin operations in 2018 as well as a petrochemical complex on the site.

This concept of a centralised utilities model will be the first in Oman. This project builds on Sembcorp’s considerable expertise and operating experience in this field. The company is a pioneer in centralised utilities. Under this unique model, multiple customers are offered an integrated supply of energy, water and on-site logistics produced by centralised facilities.