A ceremony was held on March 26 in Binh Son district, Central QuangNgai province by the Dung Quat Shipyard Company (DQS) to inaugurateupgraded versions of two oil exploration facilities.
The vessels include the floating storage and offloading unit “FSO PVNDai Hung Queen” and the oil rig “FPU Dai Hung – 01”, worth a combined85 million USD.
The two were handed over tothe Petrolimex Transportation and the PetroVietnam ExplorationProduction Corporation (PVEP – POC), respectively.
The upgrades will serve the oil exploration and production in DaiHung oilfield within the continental shelf of Vietnam, contributing toensuring national energy security and boosting socio-economicdevelopment, said Tran Minh Ngoc, Chairman of the DQS Member Council.
The FSO PVN Dai Hung Queen, weighing 105,000tonnes and with a top speed of 26 kilometres per hour, is equipped withadvanced facilities and technologies. The FPU Dai Hung-01 rig is 108.2metres long and 67.36 metres wide.
At theceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai instructed t he VietnamNational Oil and Gas Group (also known as the PetroVietnam) to continuerestructuring the DQS towards improving its operations and developingits ship building industry.
The PetroVietnam wasalso called on to implement projects to construct and upgradeadditional modern vessels, rigs, and floating units to reduce thereliance on importing high-tech services.
Theinauguration and delivery of the two vessels marked the DQS’s firstmajor outputs since 2010 when the company separated from the VietnamShipbuilding Corporation (Vinashin) and merged with the PetroVietnam.-VNA
The vessels include the floating storage and offloading unit “FSO PVNDai Hung Queen” and the oil rig “FPU Dai Hung – 01”, worth a combined85 million USD.
The two were handed over tothe Petrolimex Transportation and the PetroVietnam ExplorationProduction Corporation (PVEP – POC), respectively.
The upgrades will serve the oil exploration and production in DaiHung oilfield within the continental shelf of Vietnam, contributing toensuring national energy security and boosting socio-economicdevelopment, said Tran Minh Ngoc, Chairman of the DQS Member Council.
The FSO PVN Dai Hung Queen, weighing 105,000tonnes and with a top speed of 26 kilometres per hour, is equipped withadvanced facilities and technologies. The FPU Dai Hung-01 rig is 108.2metres long and 67.36 metres wide.
At theceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai instructed t he VietnamNational Oil and Gas Group (also known as the PetroVietnam) to continuerestructuring the DQS towards improving its operations and developingits ship building industry.
The PetroVietnam wasalso called on to implement projects to construct and upgradeadditional modern vessels, rigs, and floating units to reduce thereliance on importing high-tech services.
Theinauguration and delivery of the two vessels marked the DQS’s firstmajor outputs since 2010 when the company separated from the VietnamShipbuilding Corporation (Vinashin) and merged with the PetroVietnam.-VNA
