Almost 4.8 million USD will be spent on the maintenance of the SPM, an off-shore facility used to pump crude oil from tankers to Dung Quat Oil refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai .

A contract to this effect was signed in Quang Ngai on Nov. 7 between the Binh Son Petrochemical and Refinery Company and the contractors, including the Marine Oil and Gas Maintenance Company, the Oil and Gas Technology Company and Malaysia’s OSS.

Under the contract, the contractors will carry out the maintenance of the SPM in one year.

The SPM at Dung Quat refinery began operating in late 2008 and so far it has pumped 1.26 million tonnes of crude oil to the refinery./.