Vietnam First Refinery to Pump out First Commercial Gasoline Flow

The management board of Vietnam’s first oil refinery Dung Quat and general contractor Technip are accelerating preparation to put into operation the plant’s gasoline production unit early this month.

 

The Naphtha HydroTreater/ Continuous Catalytic Reforming (NHT/CCR) unit is capable of producing 1,900 million tons of A90, A92 and A95 gasoline annually.

 

The Dung Quat oil refinery has produced 2,000 tons of diesel and 1,200 tons of kerosene since becoming operational on Feb 22 this year and is expected to refine 3.5 million tons of crude oil into 2.6 million tons of products during this year.

 

The US$3.1 billion refinery is scheduled to run at 60 per cent-65 per cent of the designed capacity from February to June, at 70 per cent in June-August, and at full capacity as from late August.

 

Once running at full capacity, the plant is estimated to offer to market 150,000 tons of gasoline; 240,000 tons of diesel; 23,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG); over 8,000 tons of propylene; 30,000 tons of Jet-A1 fuel; and 25,000 tons of fuel oil (FO) monthly. (People’s Army)