The 44-month life Dung Quat Refinery Project (DQRP), the most important project in the fast-growing Dung Quat Economic Zone in the central province of Quang Ngai, has now entered its 25th month, the “peak hour” of the construction.
The construction schedules of this multibillion US Dollar project have always drawn attention either from the media or the government’s high-rank leaders including the topmost, the Prime Minister.
As far as the work volume of the project’s EPCs (Engineering, Procurement and Construction Contract) 1+4 & 2+3 is concernd, over 95% of the engineering design has been done, 75% of the procurement and 25% of the construction; approximately 70,000 tons of equipment including over-sized and indivisible structures have been mobilized to site for installation and erection, a source from DQPR Management Board said.
These are most essential and complicated packages including the proposed shops, Mechanical & AG Piping Works, the Product Farm Tank and the Farm Tank for crude oil. The EPC packages 1+4 are scheduled to be completed by February 2009, meanwhile those of 2+3 to be done by December 2008.
As regards the EPC 5A (the Breakwater), the Holland Van Oord contractor (formerly known as Ballast Ham Dredging - BHD) that had earlier won a USD 21 million bid and successfully treated the breakwter’s “soft soil” foundation has completed over 1,400 m of 1,600 m total length of the offshore barrier with the crest of 2-4 m high. It is estimated that the total 1,600 m of the wall with its crest from 3.1-3.7 shall be done by this November. And the whole works is planned to complete by October 2008.
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In the mean time, several domestic subcontractors, including CIENCO and PTSC, have now mobilizing about 1,400 workers in place working round the clock (03 shifts a day) to accelerate the implementation of the EPC package 5B: construction of the port for exporting oil products. The CIENCO said it has finished 100% of the production of the piles, 92% of the drilling work, 95% of the piling, 70% of the casting prestressed beams, and 30% of the pouring the concrete on the sea. The corresponding figures by PTSC are 90%, 55%, 70% and 34%, respectively.
The works is now falling far behind the planned schedules; it should have been completed by June 2007.
The administrative blocks (EPC 7) are now also under rapid construction, and has covered 67% of the work volume. This package is now 5 months behind, and it will not be completed until the end of the third quarter of the year instead of the gone February.
Other sub-items of the projects are largely going well with the planned schedules.
Tri, Nguyen Minh
