By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, May 14 -- Viet Nam's state-run oil and natural gas firm Petrovietnam plans to add a 6,500 b/d isomerate unit to its naphtha complex, which is still in the design and construction phase, at its Dung Quat refinery in Quang Ngai Province, Viet Nam. That refinery remains under construction.
Output from the isomerate unit will be used as a feedstock for the production of "ultraclean" gasoline.
Hanoi-based Petrovietnam awarded engineering and design work for the new isomerate unit to Des Plaines, Ill.-based UOP LLC. The unit will use the Penex process, which produces high-octane gasoline blending components from light naphtha, UOP said. Basic engineering work for the unit began in March.
Petrovietnam's planned 6.5 million tonne/year (t/y), $1.3 billion refinery at Dung Quat—Viet Nam's first—is expected to be operational by Dec. 31, 2006 (OGJ Online, Sept. 24, 2003).
