{"id":266113,"date":"2019-03-25T06:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=266113"},"modified":"2019-03-25T06:27:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:27:25","slug":"sri-lanka-starts-work-on-4-billion-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-starts-work-on-4-billion-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka starts work on $4 billion refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HANBANTOTA: Sri Lanka began construction on Sunday of a nearly $4 billion oil refinery it hopes will revive foreign interest in its shipping facilities after Beijing\u2019s takeover of a nearby port spooked international investors.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Hambantota, a district in Sri Lanka\u2019s south which lies on one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes, would become a global investment hub with the addition of the oil refinery and storage complex.<\/p>\n<p>The $3.85 billion project is the single largest foreign investment in Sri Lanka\u2019s history. It is jointly funded by Oman and Singapore-registered Silver Park International, a company owned by an Indian business family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HANBANTOTA: Sri Lanka began construction on Sunday of a nearly $4 billion oil refinery it hopes will revive foreign interest in its shipping facilities after Beijing\u2019s takeover of a nearby port spooked international investors. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Hambantota, a district in Sri Lanka\u2019s south which lies on one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes, would become a global investment hub with the addition of the oil refinery and storage complex. The $3.85 billion project is the single largest foreign investment in Sri Lanka\u2019s history. It is jointly funded by Oman and Singapore-registered Silver Park International, a company owned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}