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Oilfield gas link-up starts operation
A gas pipeline project that links three oil fields began operation on July 24 off the country’s southern coast.
The VND1.5 trillion (US$88 million) project, invested in by the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), is part of a larger project that supplies gas from offshore mines to onshore.
The pipeline system has a capacity to carry 1.25 million cu.m of gas a day from the Black Lion oil field, Golden Lion oil field and other fields in the Mekong basin.
The gas is carried to the L’aurore oil field and then to White Tiger oil field via a pipeline linking two oil mines, L’aurore and White Tiger.
Petro Vietnam Gas (PV Gas) authorities say the first flow of gas was brought from the White Tiger oil field onshore in 1995 for the gas fueled the Ba Ria power plant.
To date, the gas pipeline system has helped increase supply from 1 million cu.m of gas a day to 8 million cu.m of gas a year, 350,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and 300,000 tonnes of condensate.
With this output, the gas industry has supplied energy to produce 50 percent of the country’s electricity output, 30 percent of fertilizer production and more than 30 percent of LPG.
vov, vietnamnews
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