China’s Sinosure Opens $1.3b Credit Line for Iranian Refinery

(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 11 January 2017) China has opened a line of credit, worth $1.3 billion, to finance the development of Abadan Oil Refinery, Iran’s oldest refinery in the southern Khuzestan Province, the chief executive of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company said. The funding is part of a $3-billion deal with China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, known as Sinopec, which has reportedly started operations on renovating the Abadan refinery, Iran’s century-old refinery that was heavily damaged during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.