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The Sapugaskanda Refinery (also referred to as Sapugaskanda Oil Refinery) is the single largest oil refinery of Sri Lanka.The refinery was built in August 1969 by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation under the guidance of Iran, [1] initially designed to process 38,000 barrels (6,000 m 3) per stream day of Dubai crude oil, and Arabian light crude oil.
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, commonly known as CEYPETCO (CPC), is a Sri Lankan oil and gas company. Established in 1962 and wholly owned by the Government of Sri Lanka, it is the largest oil company in Sri Lanka. It was formed in 1961 by nationalisation and expropriation of all private oil companies in Sri Lanka at the time of its formation. [4]
The Hambantota Refinery (also called Greenfield Oil Refinery) [1] is an oil refinery to be developed in Mirijjawila, Hambantota, in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.The 585-acre (237 ha) refinery will be built and owned by Singapore's Silver Park International (Private) Limited (70%) and Oman's Ministry of Oil and Gas (30%).
The cartography of Sri Lanka is the history of the surveying and creation of maps of Sri Lanka. A list of maps of Sri Lanka in chronological order is shown below.
Eppawala and its surroundings are located within a geological region of high-grade phosphate deposits – Sri Lanka's only phosphate deposits. Mined since the 1970s by government-owned Lanka Phosphate , the deposits attracted media attention and spawned national protests in the late 1990s when overseas corporations expressed interest in ...
It is one of the largest graphite mines in Sri Lanka, with commercial mining at this location first commencing in 1847. Merenyagé Arnolis Fernando, born 12 August 1850 in Moratuwa , the second son of Merenyagé Juanis Fernando, a carpenter, and Silapu Perumagé Angela Fernando. [ 1 ]
The history of Sri Lanka covers Sri Lanka and the history of the Indian subcontinent and its surrounding regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. Prehistoric Sri Lanka goes back 125,000 years and possibly even as far back as 500,000 years. [1] The earliest humans found in Sri Lanka date to Prehistoric times about 35,000 years ...
It is one of the largest mines in Sri Lanka. Mining started in 1872, under a British owner and was purchased by Don Charles Gemoris Attygalle . It remained in the Attygalle family after the deaths of Don Charles Gemoris Attygalle and his son Francis Dixon Attygalle and was managed by D. S. Senanayake and John Kotelawala until it was ...