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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 Te Giac Den (Black Rhino) field.

Back in June 2008, Soco said that it would drill a new well in this field within the next 6-9 months. However, the company has now confirmed that it will not be undertaken before the first half of next year.

Analysts say Soco’s assets remain attractive to a potential buyer identified as Sinochem of China which bought Soco’s assets in Yemen worth US$465 million last year.

However, Ed Story said talks to sell assets had taken place only “sporadically”, and there was “nothing definitive to discuss”.

Via: english.vovnews.vn

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 certain characteristics. They are classified by the density and sulfur amounts in the oil. Reservoirs with less dense crude produce more valued products. A less dense or ‘lighter’ crude requires much less work and therefore has a better price margin.

Once crude oil is at the refinery there are a large number of various methods used to distill the crude oil. A simple description of a refinery is a large distillation plant where distillation, conversion and treating take place. Crude oil is not useful in its raw state and must be refined into usable petroleum products. Oil contains hydrocarbons of varying lengths. These lengths allow refineries to break apart the crude to collect streams of products such as diesel, kerosene, gasoline and petroleum gas.

Oil refining begins with distillation. The tall columns that are seen in a refinery complex have catch trays at various levels inside. Crude is pumped in and heated. The lightest materials such as propane and butane go to the highest point. Medium weight materials stay in the middle areas and the heaviest materials stay low never the bottom. The temperatures in the distillation chambers are control using computer systems to get the maximum amounts from the crude. Once the various products coalesce into liquid form, they are sent through different pipes for different refining techniques.

The next step most products go through is conversion. This is the where most components become useful and the refinery makes money. The liquids from the medium and heavy ranges are first treated with hydrogen to remove as many contaminants as possible. One of the most common conversion processes is cracking. Cracking involves breaking or ‘cracking’ the hydrocarbon chains in the oil. This allows the medium and heavy fluids to be converted to high-end light densities where the most useful products are. There are two common methods of cracking, Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC) and Hydrocracking. Fluid catalytic cracking uses temperatures around 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, low pressure and a powdered catalyst to break apart the heavy mixture into gasoline. Hydrocracking uses a different catalyst, lower temperatures and higher pressure to make gasoline and jet fuel. Other conversion processes used are combining and rearranging. Since most gasoline from these processes does not have enough octane to burn in automobiles, it is rearranged to form high-octane gasoline.

All petroleum products contain impurities such as nitrogen and sulfur. The treating process removes these compounds to produce cleaner burning fuels, which reduces air pollution. Hydrotreating is a milder form of hydrocracking and is used to remove impurities. The final process is blending. Most gasoline is a blend of various treated components. These blends vary from state to state depending on regulations.

Source: www.essortment.com

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 of the project which has a total initial investment of nearly 227 billion.

The project covers 6.3 hectares, which will house two tanks capable of storing 2,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and other equipment meeting the international and Vietnamese standards.

The storage depot will link directly with the Dung Quat refinery and undertake the delivery of LPG from the refinery in the southern central coastal region and Central Highlands, helping stabilise domestic LPG market.

The project, expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2010, will contributed to Quang Ngai province’s socio-economic development.

The Dung Quat LPG storage project, together with existing facilities of PV Gas North and PV Gas South nationwide as well as a cold LPG storage depot to be build in Ba Ria-Vung Tau by the year end, will form a complete infrastructure system for LPG distribution, to contribute to ensuring the national energy security.

Source: www.nhandan.com.vn

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 one factory in the Philippines and moving two units to Kulim from Penang in Malaysia.

Once operational in 2010 at full capacity, the factory will employ about 4,000 workers and generate expected exports revenue of US$5 billion to US$6 billion a year.

Last year, Intel had chosen local engineers for further training in Malaysia and China, and 40 most excellent students to be trained in Portland State University in Oregon State of the U.S.

Intel Corp forecasts that this year sales of PC in Vietnam will rise 11 per cent on year.

Source: www.vnbusinessnews.com

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 output from Vietnam’s Bach Ho (White Tiger) field.

Analyst BMI said delivery of the crude will “pave the way” for BP to acquire at least part of the 49% stake open in Dung Quat. BMI cited a statement by Petrovietnam Chairman Dinh La Thang that international partners committed to supplying crude would be given preference as stakeholders in the facility.

Originally Petrovietnam had planned to run the Dung Quat refinery on domestically produced Bach Ho oil, but it decided instead to bolster its foreign exchange earnings by using more imported Middle East oil and reserving Bach Ho for export markets.

The Dung Quat refinery, which is scheduled to begin operations on Feb. 25, is designed to process 3.5 million tonnes of oil during 2009, while its capacity is eventually set to increase to 6.5 million tonnes/year.

When it is fully operational, the Dung Quat refinery will meet 30% of domestic demand, producing LPG, propylene, 90RON and 92RON gasoline, kerosine, Jet A1, diesel oil, and fuel oil.

Earlier this week, Petrovietnam announced plans to build a 2 million-tonne underground storage facility at Long Son in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province that is designed to hold oil products from the Dung Quat refinery.

Source: www.ogj.com

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 processing capacity. A crew of more than 700 foreign experts and Vietnamese engineers are always on duty to ensure optimal operations of the refinery.

After the 24 hours of operation, the refinery was operating safely, without any problems. Mr Venkateban, a supervisor from the Technip Company excitedly said: “I believe that we will produce the first oil products very soon, in a few days”

The foreign experts and the Vietnamese engineers are slowly and gradually increasing the flow of petroleum into the refinery and distiling the two first commercial products, namely diesel and kerosene fuels. As scheduled, the quality of the two products will be tested in coming days before being entering the supply chain. Nguyen Hoai Giang, Vice Manager of the Project said: “The first commercial products are expected to become available by the end of this week.”

The Dung Quat Refinery also plans to produce several other distiled petroleum products such as A90, A92, A95 petrol and aviation fuel by April, 2009. The refinery will bring all 14 units into operation by the end of June, 2009.

All construction and assemble work have been completed, and after 44 months of constructing the Dung Quat Refinery Plant was finished ahead of the deadline of February 25th, 2009.

The first distil petroleum products will enter the supply chain on February 22nd, 2009.

Source: VietNamNet/TN

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 next month, the Saigon Giai Phong newspaper said.

The oil depot, to be located in Long Son in the southern oil hub province of Ba Ria Vung Tau, will open in 2010 with an annual capacity of 1.2 million tonnes of oil products, the daily quoted PV Oil Chief Executive Nguyen Quoc Khanh as saying.

Khanh said the company would use existing depots in other parts of the country to store products from Dung Quat from next month.

Source: www.vnbusinessnews.com