State oil monopoly PetroVietnam is in talks with a number of foreign oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell, India’s Essar and South Korea’s SK Energy to upgrade and sell part of the country’s first refinery. The Ministry of Planning and Investment-run Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper quoted PetroVietnam chairman Dinh La Thang as saying the group [...]
First products of Dung Quat refinery hit market today
The historic first step of Vietnam’s petrochemical industry will be celebrated tonight as the Dung Quat Oil Refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai officially releases its products into the market. The celebration, organized by the Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation – Petrovietnam – will be aired live on Vietnam Television Station‘s VTV1 channel [...]
Intel to Complete US$1 Bln Chip Plant in Vietnam by End-2009
VNBusinessNews – Intel Corp, the world’s biggest chip maker, will complete construction of a USUS$1 billion assembly and test chip plant in Viet Nam at the end of 2009, General Director of Intel Products Viet Nam, Rick Howarth said. Rick Howarth confirmed the news after Intel had recently reshuffled its units in Asia including closing [...]
BP to supply crude oil to Vietnam’s Dung Quat refinery
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14 — BP PLC has signed an agreement with state-run Petrovietnam Oil Corp. and operator Binh Son Refinery Co. to supply oil to Vietnam’s 130,000-b/d Dung Quat refinery starting on Feb. 25. Petrovietnam will negotiate with BP over the purchase of as much as 70,000 b/d of crude, which will gradually replace [...]
Dung Quat Oil Refinery begins operations
On February 9th, the Dung Quat Refinery in the Central Province of Quang Ngai officially began became operational. The crude oil distillation tower in the CDU atmospheric pressure unit, one of the most important units of the Dung Quat refinery, has started refining around 900,000 tons of crude oil, reaching 60 percent of its total [...]