Reuters - Iran has decided to halt work on the expansion of its Abadan oil refinery until mid-April as part of measures to contain the new coronavirus outbreak, the semi-official Mehr news agency said, citing Managing Director of National Iranian Oil Engineering and Construction Company (NIOEC) Saeed Sattari Naini.

Iran contracted China�s Sinopec in 2017 to carry out the work over a period of four years.

Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Kirsten Donovan