Sri Lanka has agreed to sign a fresh deal with India to lease out 14 out of the 99 tanks at the strategic World War II-era oil tank farm for 50 years in the eastern port district of Trincomalee, Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said here on Friday.
Gammanpila said the deal will be signed next week after getting approval from the Cabinet. The new agreement will be an extension of the 2002 agreement with the local operators of the Indian Oil Company, LIOC.
Sri Lanka in 2002 entered the original deal with India on the island’s most strategic oil storage complex, which was used as a supply base during World War II.
