You can download Offshore Safety Case Training at http://www.scribd.com/doc/5052863/Offshore-Safety-Case-Training-ppt This is presentation can be used to train safety training to offshore operator personnel to convey a strong message: “If the safety systems are not operated and maintained well, then major accidents can happen” Other links: Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (H.U.E.T.) Offshore Safety Performance Management.doc Offshore [...]
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Soco International Plc of the UK announced that it will delay its oil exploitation plan at Te Giac Trang (White Rhino) field until mid 2011, one year behind schedule. The Financial Times on March 10 quoted Ed Story, Soco’s president and CEO, saying his company has also decided to cancel its plan for exploration at [...]
Oil is pumped from deep underground and under seas. Once it has been collected, it is transported to a refinery where it is turned into useful products for customers. A barrel of crude oil is 42-gallons. From this, regulations force refineries to turn at least 50 percent into gasoline. Crude oil from each reservoir has [...]
Nhan Dan Online/VNA – Work started for the construction of a LPG storage and tank truck station in the Dung Quat economic zone’s Eastern Industrial Zone on March 16 with a total initial investment of 226.6 billion VND. The Vietnam Gas Corporation, a subsidiary of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), is the investor [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The trading arm of Vietnam’s state oil firm Petrovietnam will build a $250 million oil depot by 2010 to store products from the country’s first refinery Dung Quat, a state-run newspaper reported on Monday. PV Oil, which operates about 2,000 filling stations nationwide, will also distribute products from the 140,000-bpd refinery due to start operating [...]

