Foreign firms seek to invest in oil refinery in Diwaniya

DIWANIYA / IraqiNews.com: The Diwaniya Investment Commission received on Tuesday a delegation from foreign firms that seek to invest in building an oil refinery in the province, at a total cost of $2.9 billion. “The refinery will have a production capacity of 140 barrels per day,” Eng. Hakim al-Khozaee, the commission’s director general, told IraqiNews.com news agency. He said that the delegation proposed to finish the refinery’s first stage within 30 months. Diwaniya city lies 180 km south of Baghdad. MH (P) / SS 2