Petrol Tug

January 26, (LBO) – Ceylon Petroleum Corporation will purchase a tug to support tanker operations at its offshore petroleum unloading facility, a top official said.
CPC Chairman Asantha de Mel says the tug is estimated to cost five million US dollars.

“We will save about two million dollars a year that we are now paying to hire these services from outside,” de Mel told LBO.

The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has a single point buoy mooring facility to unload oil 9.
6 kilometres off Colombo.

Sri Lanka imports all its petroleum requirements.
In 2005, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation imported two million metric tonnes of crude and 895,000 metric tonnes of refined products.