4:48:22 PM | 27/2/2008
Vietnam will strive to start trial run of its first oil refinery Dung Quat this August so as to officially operate the plant in the first quarter of 2009, said Vietnam Machinery Installment Corp (Lilama), a project contractor.
Lilama has to date completed main works of the bids P1, P2 &3 of the project, a company official said.
The company has installed over 24,000 tons of tank equipment, 7,000 tons of steel concrete and 11,500 tons of other equipment.
The US$2.5 billion Dung Quat oil refinery, the construction of which was kicked off in the Dung Quat economic zone, in June 2005, is expected to process 6.5 million tons of crude oil a year once it is fully operational in February 2009.
The plant, with hoped products of propylene, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), lead-free petrol, diesel oil and fuel oil, is estimated refine 33 per cent of the country’s entire demand for petrol and oil. (New Hanoi)
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