The first 5000 tons of Diezel (DO) provided by PetroVietnam Oil Processing and Distribution Company (PDC) have been transported to the Dung Quat Refinery by 16-18 cu.m-capacity- tank trucks to fill the first crude tank (TK 3801B ), paving the way for the planned test run late this year, Dung Quat Refinery Project Management Board (DQRPMB) revealed on 16th May.
Earlier, 2 of 13 power stations (SS1& SS2) with two-6.3-MVA-capacity-transformers were powered on.
Recently, several input fuel-supplied contracts were signed between DQRPMB with Vietnam Oil & Gas Group-based Petechim, PDC, PVGas and PVTrans.
Based on the signed contracts, Petechim shall supply crude oil, chemical products, while PDC to provide Petrol, Diesel, JetA1, Fuel Oil; PVGas to distribute the Refinery’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) products; and PVTrans to cover material & fuel transportation.
As a source from DQRPMB goes, Refinery’s total volume of completed workload is around 90% of schedule. Particularly, the General Contractor of Technip Consortium (TPC) has to April completed 100% of the engineering design, 95% of the procurement and 70 % of the construction for the project’s EPCs (Engineering, Procurement and Construction Contract) 1+4 & 2+3.
On April, the single-point mooring (SPM), which is designed as a wharf-free station for crude oil to be pumped into the refinering through a pipeline system, was successfully launched to fit end system of crude oil interconnection pipelines late May, completing the EPC package 4.
For EPC 5A (Breakwater), the contractor of Van Oord, Holland on 2nd May installed the final Accropodes (wave-breaking concrete structure) to close the package successfully and expected to hand over to Petro Vietnam late May 2008, 5 months ahead of schedule.
As said by the contractor, the 1,600 m long-11 m wide-10 m high Breakwater was embanked with over 18,500 m3 of Accropodes and around 2 million tons of rock from 11 different mines.
According to deputy general director of PetroVietnam, Truong Van Tuyen, Head of DQRPMB, as planed, almost sub-items will finish on May; head recovery steam generators shall start running to clean all pipelines in June; all the Refinery’s workshops to perform in December and Feb. 2009 the Refinery shall officially start its commercial operation, the first oil will come on streams on Mach.2009.
Thu Huong
