Sri Lanka is set to award a multi-billion-dollar oil refinery project to a Chinese state-owned company after a rival bidder pulled out, the energy minister said on Tuesday. Kanchana Wijesekera said the government would shortly enter into an investment agreement with Sinopec to build the refinery next to the Chinese-run port at the southern town of Hambantota.
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