The single-point mooring (SPM) system at Dung Quat refinery in the southcentral province of Quang Ngai received a 150,000-tonne oil tanker onAugust 23, the largest among 398 cargo vessels that the system hasserved during five years of operation.
The oil tanker brought 1 million barrels of crude imported from Azerbaijan for processing at Dung Quat.
This is also the first oil tanker the SPM system received after a320,000 USD upgrade several months ago, which allows the SPM toreceive oil tankers of up to 150,000 tonnes. Previously it could onlyaccommodate 100,000-tonne tankers.
Dung QuatRefinery, the first oil refinery in Vietnam, has processed and soldnearly 28 million tonnes of oil products since its establishment in2009.-VNA