Over 5,438 tonne hi-tech pressure vessels produced for Nghi Son Refinery

August 13, 2015 | 20:06

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Since its first shipment in February this year, Doosan Vina’s Chemical Processing Equipment (CPE) plant has made another eight shipments to Vietnam’s second petro- chemical refinery complex (NSRP) which is now under construction in the north central province of Thanh Hoa with a total of 169 hi-tech pressure vessels weighing 5,438 tonnes.

The project with NSRP was signed in March 2014 and encompasses a total 169 pressure vessels, towers and heat exchangers that will be installed to help the NSRP complex to produce 200,000 barrels of crude oil per day once it’s put into operation in 2017.

In the items sent to Nghi Son refinery project, the largest tank was 5.7m in diameter, 50m long and weighed more than 205 tonnes.

“We have applied cutting-edge technology to produce these high tech pressure tanks. After fourteen months working at full tilt, we have now completed 93 per cent of the project,” said Phan Huong, CPE project manager.

“This is CPE’s biggest domestic project so far which requires 10 shipments and the final one is scheduled this September,” Huong added.

Doosan Vina is a high tech industrial complex located in Dung Quat Economic Zone in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Ngai.

The company, part of Korea-based Doosan Group- a multinational focusing on power, water and other infrastructure developments, manufactures and supplies mega infrastructure products such as boilers for thermal power plants, heat recovery steam generators, material handling systems and chemical processing equipment.

Doosan Vina reaped an export value of VND4.3 trillion ($200 million) last year which is expected to touch VND6.4 trillion ($300 million) this year.