With a total investment of 9 billion USD and a phase 1 operating capacity of 200,000 barrels of crude oil per day, Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Plant not only meets nearly 40% of the demand for gasoline and oil, making an important contribution to ensuring national energy security, but also creates opportunities to develop input supply services for the plant. However, to become a successful supplier, enterprises in the province need to improve service quality, professionalize and highly discipline the processes from negotiation to ensuring safety, security, order, environment... according to the high requirements of the plant.
PTSC Thanh Hoa implements maintenance package at Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Plant. Photo: PV
During the first maintenance of Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Plant at the end of 2023, PTSC Thanh Hoa Technical Services Joint Stock Company (PTSC Thanh Hoa) is one of the five main contractors performing the maintenance work of the entire plant. The package undertaken by PTSC Thanh Hoa includes high-tech equipment such as boilers, turbine generators, pipelines operating at high pressure, high temperature, control valve equipment system - manual opening and closing valves, heat exchangers, electrical control equipment and other mechanical equipment. According to the representative of PTSC Thanh Hoa, the unit has mobilized 800 experts and skilled workers to participate in the package. With many years of experience of PTSC in performing maintenance and repair in the oil and gas, fertilizer, electricity, cement, chemical industries, etc., PTSC Thanh Hoa has proactively organized and implemented project management in a scientific and professional manner, becoming the leading contractor in achieving safety, quality and progress targets to meet the requirements of Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Company Limited (NSRP). With 300,000 hours of absolutely safe work, the package undertaken by PTSC Thanh Hoa has successfully completed the work items 3 days ahead of schedule, which is an important condition for the plant to resume operations earlier than expected.
Mr. Pham Hung Phuong, Director of PTSC Thanh Hoa said: "In addition to providing maintenance and major repair services for Nghi Son Refinery, PTSC Thanh Hoa is currently providing 8 tugboats and services to ensure absolutely safe towing support for all crude oil supply vessels entering Nghi Son Refinery port, especially super-long and super-heavy vessels. From the beginning of 2024 to now, there have been 678 oil tanker trips successfully towed by PTSC Thanh Hoa. The number calculated from the time of project implementation to date is more than 7,000 trips, with 2.7 million safe working hours. The number of VLCCs (the world's largest crude oil tankers) successfully towed by PTSC Thanh Hoa alone has reached the 200th trip milestone."
In addition to important services such as maintenance and ship towing, Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Plant's operations use many other service items such as: auxiliary materials, small mechanical items, food, labor, stationery, etc.
Headquartered in Nghi Son Economic Zone, HB International Construction and Trading Mechanical Co., Ltd. is also a contractor supplying mechanical pipe equipment and materials. Ms. Duong Hong, the company's commercial manager, shared: "Our company has cooperated to supply mechanical materials for the factory for 4 years. We are striving to increase our capacity, product quality as well as human resources to continue to successfully bid for more work items in the coming time, contributing to increasing revenue and creating more jobs for workers."
According to Mr. Kazutaka Yamato, General Director of NSRP, the company pays great attention and wishes for many opportunities to cooperate with local suppliers. This is evidenced by the fact that currently, 78% of NSRP's contracts are executed with local suppliers. Of these, the number of suppliers in Thanh Hoa is 57/652, accounting for 7%.
According to Mr. Kazutaka Yamato, the development of capacity and responsiveness of local suppliers will help NSRP reduce its dependence on foreign suppliers without affecting quality, delivery time, and at the same time, the cost will be more competitive. However, suppliers in Thanh Hoa need to meet all health, safety, security and environmental issues; at the same time, comply with legal and technical requirements as well as procurement bidding processes as required.
Creating opportunities to open up and increase connectivity for local suppliers, NSRP recently organized a workshop on developing local enterprises and suppliers. Through this workshop, through direct exchanges between NSRP and partners, it provided a more comprehensive view of NSRP's basic requirements that all suppliers need to meet. Delegates, enterprises, and partners who are learning and wishing to connect also proposed forms of publicizing the list, structure of product and input material supply services; as well as NSRP's standards and conditions so that Vietnamese enterprises in general and Thanh Hoa enterprises in particular can easily access and focus on studying the company's standards and conditions, thereby having a plan to meet the requirements and conditions set forth.
Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical Plant is one of the largest foreign direct investment projects in Vietnam; at the same time, it is the most complex deep-processing petrochemical complex in the petrochemical refining sector in Vietnam and the region, with 38 workshops with the world's leading modern technology. Therefore, the plant's input services are also subject to strict conditions and high safety and discipline. Currently, local suppliers in general and enterprises in Thanh Hoa province in particular have significantly improved and enhanced their capacity, knowledge and business experience. With the recent launch of the Supplier Portal by NSRP, it has also empowered suppliers with the opportunity to learn, equip and improve their capacity to become successful suppliers, increase the service value chain and create jobs for workers.
Tung Lam
Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/co-hoi-tro-thanh-nha-cung-cap-cua-nha-may-loc-hoa-dau-nghi-son-219498.htm
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