Vietnam’s first pipe coating plant opened
By Hong Phuc - The Saigon Times Daily
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| PetroVietnam leaders and guests visit the newly opened pipe coating plant in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province - Photo: Lan Huong |
HCMC – PetroVietnam Investment and Development Joint Stock Co. (PVID) inaugurated the first pipe coating factory worth VND517 billion in Vietnam on Thursday.
Located on 70 hectares in Phu My 1 Industrial Park in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, the factory will help the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) save the cost of hiring foreign firms to coat its gas and oil pipelines, which may amount to hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars for each project.
Construction of the factory began in 2009, comprising two equipment lines with latest anti-corrosion technology provided by the Netherlands’s Bauhuis International B.V. The factory will be able to coat pipes with diameters of six to 48 inches with fusion-bonded epoxy, three-layer PE/PP plastics and concrete.
This factory is expected to turn out 240 kilometers of coated pipes each year for use in the gas industry.
Early last month, the factory began its first project for coating 1.5 kilometers of gas pipelines for the Nhon Trach 2 power plant. The product was certified to meet international standards under DNV accreditation.
The factory will coat 30 kilometers of pipelines taking gas from the White Sea Lion, White Rhino and White Tiger oil fields ashore.
On the same day, PVID inked a US$250-million deal to provide coating services for East Sea, White Rhino and Thien Ung gas pipes.