They include a new sea port at Hambantota, in the president's constituency in the south, an oil-storage facility, a new airport, a coal-fired power plant and an expressway.

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Earlier this year, Tangiers opened an expanded storage facility for oil, gas and other refined materials aimed at the more than 70, 000 ships that pass through the Strait of Gibraltar each year.

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Associated with LOOP are Clovelly Dome, a 40-million-barrel salt cavern storage facility, and the Capline pipeline, which is the largest pipeline system delivering crude oil from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest.

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