Project Profile
Value: US$9.2 billion
Location: Thanh Hóa Province, 250 km south of Hanoi, Vietnam
Processing Capacity: 200,000 barrels per day
Petroleum products: 8.64 mcm per year
Petrochemicals: 1.8 million tpy
Start-up year: August 2018
Kuwait Petroleum International, Idemitsu, and Mitsui Chemicals have established a joint venture company, Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical, to implement the construction and operation of a refinery and petrochemical complex in the Nghi Son Economic Zone (NSEZ) and associated offshore facilities, in the Thanh Hóa Province in Vietnam.
The project is located 200 km south of Hanoi and about 80 km north of Vinh City (Nghe An Province). The total onshore area is about 400 ha. The project includes the construction of the following installations:
- onshore Installations: Main Refinery and Petrochemical Complex, (328ha), onshore Pipeline route from the plant to the Jetties (30ha), and a Marine harbour (36ha).
- Offshore Installations: main breakwater: access channel, turning basin, intake channel (193ha), crude oil pipeline (35ha), and a single point mooring (SPM) (31ha.)
The project will also include a 30,000 DWT vessels harbour with four berths (two berths per jetty) for export of white products (i.e., jet fuel, paraxylene, benzene, gasoline); one berth for the export of LPG; one berth for transfer of sulphur (dry bulk); one berth for the transfer of polypropylene (containerised), and a berthing facility for service vessels/tugs.An approximately 35 kilometre double crude oil pipeline system will be built to bring the crude oil import from the SPM to the refinery.
The product pipeline system, which will send the refined products from the refinery to the products jetties, will run along the northern 350 metre corridor connecting the product tank farm and product jetties. An additional pipeline will carry the return of LPG vapor to the LPG storage tank. A Sulphur Forming and Storage Unit, which will form solid Sulphur, stockpile, reclaim, transfer, weight and shipload solidified sulphur will be also located in the Jetty area. The product from this unit will be exported through a dedicated sulphur loading berth at the solid products export jetty.The Project’s nameplate crude oil processing capacity would be 200,000 barrels per day. Refined products (liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline, kerosene/jet A1 and diesel), accounting for about 80% of NSRP’s total projected sales, will be sold into the domestic market. Petrochemical products (polypropylene, benzene and paraxylene) will be produced for domestic and export markets. The project will also recover sulphur which will be also sold to the export market.
When fully operational, the plant will deliver about 8.64 mcm per year of petroleum products and 1.8 million tpy of petrochemicals. This will be Vietnam's second refinery. Construction started in the 3rd quarter 2012.
Operators:
Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical LLC (NSRP): Owner
Joint venture company:
Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam): 25.1% interest
Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI): 35.1% interest
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.: 35.1% interest
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc: 4.7% interest
Contractors:
Axens: Basic engineering design contracts for some of the units
Foster Wheeler: Pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) followed by the FEED and PMC contract and the design and supply of a carbon monoxide incinerator package for a residue fluidized catalytic cracker
Joint venture for EPC contract:
JGC
Chiyoda
Technip (France)
Technip Geoproduction (Malaysia)
GS Engineering & Construction
SK Engineering & Construction
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