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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Vietnam's Nghi Son
refinery has restarted after a shutdown on 12 February because of
a blackout, a company spokesman said on Thursday, adding that it is
investigating the cause, according to Hydrocarbonprocessing.
Thus,
it resumed production in the middle of the third week of
February.
Vietnam's biggest oil refinery, the USD9-B Nghi Son, started
commercial operations in late 2018, and has a capacity of 200,000
bpd.
"The refinery will be fully operational in days, around a week," and
the shutdown had not caused any damage, said a source with direct knowledge of
the matter, who sought anonymity in the absence of authorization to speak to the
media.
The refinery, located 260 km (160 miles) south of Hanoi, is 35.1%
owned by Japan's Idemitsu Kosan Co, 35.1% by Kuwait Petroleum, 25.1% by
PetroVietnam and 4.7% by Mitsui Chemicals Inc.
Nghi Son and the
130,000-bpd Dung Quat refinery, which started production in 2009, together meet
about 70% of Vietnam's demand for refined oil products.
As MRC reported earlier,
Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical (NSRP) is planning a major overhaul at its
polypropylene (PP) unit in Vietnam in June 2021. The production capacity of the
company's PP line is 370,000 tons/year. And the entire complex will be shut in
2023 for maintenance.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
PP shipments to the Russian market reached 1 240,000 tonnes in 2020 (calculated
using the formula: production, minus exports, plus imports, excluding producers'
inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply of exclusively PP random copolymer
increased. |
