KPC to start up Vietnam refinery in July, hold off on China

摘要

Dubai-State-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp., or KPC, aims to start operations at its 200,000 b/d refinery joint venture in Vietnam in July, as planned, oil minister Essam al- Marzouq said Sunday in a report by state-run Kuna news agency. The Nhgi Son refinery and petrochemicals complex in northern Vietnam is expected to meet about 40% of Vietnam’s domestic gasoline demand, state-owned PetroVietnam said in a statement May 2016 while reporting the visit to Vietnam by Kuwait’s Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.