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Dung Quat Refinery Operational in February
VIET NAM - The Dung Quat oil refinery in Viet Name, started three years ago should be completed by February next year the Vietnamese Comunist Party said this week.The State steering board for key oil and gas projects in Viet Nam reviewed the pace of construction of the Dung Quat Oil Refinery project – the first of its kind in Vietnam – at a working session in central Quang Ngai province on 21 September.
Truong Van Tuyen, Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, informed the board that more than 90 per cent of bidding packages have been completed by contractors and investors since the groundbreaking ceremony in June 2005.
Notably, the EPC 5A bidding package to build a breakwater for the oil refinery was completed in May 2008, five months ahead of schedule. The oil refinery management board has also put several completed sub-projects on test runs.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai, head of the board, praised contractors, investors and workers for their efforts to speed up the implementation of the project over the past 39 months.
He asked them to mobilise all resources to ensure the oil refinery will be put into operation safely in February 2009. He asked the oil refinery management board to focus on training qualified engineers to run the refinery after it is operational.
He also asked Quang Ngai province to work closely with the oil refinery management board to speed up land clearance and stabilise displaced people's lives in resettlement areas.
The oil refinery has a designed capacity of 6.5 million tonnes per year and is expected to meet one-third of the country’s demand for oil and petroleum.
Meanwhile, a bio-ethanol plant will be built at the Dung Quat Economic Zone in central Quang Ngai province next year with investment from three subsidiaries of the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam).
The $120-million factory is expected to use 220,000 tonnes of cassava every year as the main feedstock to turn out annually 100 million tonnes of ethanol to be used as a biofuel alternative to gasoline.
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