Sri Lanka, March 21 -- Questions were raised in Parliament today on the proposed oil refinery project in Hambantota which was supposed to be a joint venture with Oman, according to Sri Lanka's Board of Investment (BoI) but it was later denied by Oman's Ministry of Oil and Gas.
UPFA MP Kanchana Kumara Wijesekera questioned on the US $ 3.8 billion project saying the government of Oman had denied that it is going to be a part of it through a Sri Lankan Minister has stated it is going to be a joint venture between the two countries.
They referred to a report which said Under Secretary Ministry of Oil and Gas in Oman Salim al-Aufi had denied the claim.
"We are not against foreign investors but it should not be like the Volkswagen project whic...