Operations resume at Dung Quat Refinery

Two months after the first maintenance work was carried out on the Dung Quat Refinery, operations resumed at full capacity yesterday, two days earlier than scheduled, reported the general director of the Binh Son Oil Refining and Petrochemical Co Ltd, Nguyen Hoai Giang.

The refinery actually resumed operations on 26 August at 85 per cent capacity, but this was increased to full throttle from noon yesterday, Giang affirmed.

Since it resumed operations, the refinery has produced about 70,000 tonnes of oil and petrol including 40,000 tonnes of diesel oil, 21,000 tonnes of petrol and 10,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas.

Giang said that 10.5 million tonnes had been sold to the domestic market.

Giang added that the resumption of operations at the Dung Quat Refinery played an important role in lifting the burden from the shoulders of other petroleum companies that had been forced to import petrol at high exchange rates and expensive transport costs.

Giang also said that during the maintenance work, experts fixed 55 technical problems.

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