Dung Quat Oil Refinery has started commissioning its residue fluid continuous cracking (RFCC) workshop, the most important component to produce finished products of the Quang Ngai Province-based refinery.
The workshop is also expected to pave the way for the full capacity running phase of the refinery on August 25. Contractors will hand over the project to the project owner on October 25.
RFCC workshop started running at 70 percent capacity on Wednesday and has turned out liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), petrol, light cycle oil and diluted crude oil. The workshop as of yesterday could produce 90 cubic meters of LPG and 270 cubic meters of petrol per hour, or 2,160 cubic meters of LPG and 6,480 cubic meters of petrol per day.
Meanwhile, the crude oil distillation workshop of the refinery has also started operating at 70 percent capacity. The standard product will be mixed with others to produce commercial products.
"Dung Quat Refinery on the central coast plans to launch 10,000 cubic meters of LPG and A92 gas, 5,000 cubic meters of kerosene or jet fuel, and 25,000 cubic meters of diesel oil to the market by July 1.
The refinery took delivery of its fourth crude oil shipment of 80,000 tonnes earlier this month and will import seven more shipments in July. It has consumed 300,000 tonnes of crude oil to date after launching its first products in February.
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