SEOUL, KOREA - Roger Tamraz, an influential international banker and venture capital investor active in oil and gas, will visit Korea on June 7 and discuss possible investment projects worth US$36 billion with Korean business leaders. According to industry sources on the 6th, Mr. Tamraz will stay in Seoul for six days until the 12th and have a series of meetings with local CEOs.
Possible projects under discussion will include a 4,000-kilometer gas and oil pipeline connecting the Middle East and Central Asia, construction of seven 3-million-ton LNG floating production, storage and offloading units, and building of an Iraqi refinery.
The chairman of Netoil Group, born in 1940 in Cairo, Egypt, to Lebanese parents, attended Cambridge University in a Ph.D. program and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He was instrumental in completing the 320-km Suez pipeline in the 1970s, Jubail (Saudi Arabia) methanol project, and the 1,800-km Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in 2006.
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