Dung Quat Refinery

Dung Quat refinery has a designed capacity of 6.5 million tons of crude oil annually, or 140 thousand barrels per day (22×10³ m³/d). The capacity would be expanded to 10 million tons per year by 2013–2014. In addition to fuels, the refinery will also produce petro-chemical products. The refinery complex area comprises:

• Overall Refinery Process, Utility and Offsites Facilities: about 110 ha;
• Crude Tank Farm and Flare Area: about 42 ha;
• Product Tank Farm: about 36 ha;
• Seawater intake, Waste Water and Crude Oil Pipelines: about 4 ha;
• Interconnecting Pipelines, road and right of Way: about 40 ha;
• Product Harbor Service Area: about 135 ha.

Main contractors of the refinery were Technip, JGC Corporation, and Técnicas Reunidas. The refinery cost US$3 billion, up from $2.5 billion previously and more than double an original cost estimate of about $1.4 billion in 1994. It may need another $1 billion to build a desulphurising unit targeted for 2013.