No plan to build refinery in BD: Saudi Aramco

The head of state-run Saudi Aramco denied it was considering construction of an oil refinery in Bangladesh after a senior Dhaka energy official said on Monday the proposal had been raised last week, reports Reuters. "This is not true. There is no discussion at all about refineries in Bangladesh," Khalid al-Falih, Aramco's chief executive officer, told reporters in Riyadh. Earlier the Bangladesh energy official had said the proposal to build the refinery at an estimated cost of $2.5 billion was made when a Saudi Aramco delegation visited Dhaka last week and met officials at the ministry of power and energy. "The ministry will examine the proposal and take a decision as soon as possible," the official told Reuters, requesting anonymity.