Singapore imports Vietnamese aviation oil

The Binh Son Refinery and Petrochemical Co. (BSR) under the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has sold the first batch of Jet A1 fuel for aeroplanes, produced by the Dung Quat oil refinery to BP Singapore Pte. Ltd.

The batch, the first of its kind made in Vietnam, weighed 4,500 tonnes.

Dung Quat’s Jet A1 fuel was examined by Shell, BP, Chevron, ENI, ExonMobil, Kuwait Petroleum, Statoil and Total, and granted standard certificates of ASTM of the US and DEFSTAN of the UK.

Located in the central province of Quang Ngai, Dung Quat is the first oil refinery in Vietnam to be built with a design capacity of 6.5 million tonnes a year.

Since the refinery’s official operations began in February 2009, Dung Quat has received 5.3 million tonnes of crude oil and turned out 4.6 million tonnes of refined products.

The refinery is capable of producing about 200,000-300,000 tonnes per year of Jet A1 for domestic use and export.

Tags: aviation oil, Binh Son Refinery and Petrochemical