VN launches its first oil FSO5
VGP - Việt Nam officially introduces its first oil floating storage offloading unit (FSO5) to serve as the national on-sea oil extraction plant.
The handover ceremony of FSO5 took place yesterday afternoon
in
The 258-m-long
FSO5, 150,000 tons in weight, is the ever biggest mechanical project carried
out in Việt
The unit will extract oil at the Bạch Hổ and Dragon fields, 200
miles offshore.
Meanwhile, General Director Nguyễn Hùng Dũng of the Petroleum
Technical and Service Joint-stock Company (PTSC), main investor of FSO5, said
even though the construction of FSO5 faced a lot of difficulties but thanks to the close
supervisory and direction of the government and its related agencies the
project can be completed.
He stressed on the safety insurance when performing
technical work of dragging FSO5 to its location, installing connection and running
test drive.