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Thursday, April 29, 2021, 09:04 GMT+7 This image shows a part of the underground LPG storage cavern, in an egg shape, in Phu My Town, Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, southern Vietnam. Photo: Dong Ha / Tuoi Tre The construction of an underground liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage cavern in Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province has been hastened so that it can be completed in about two months, as originally scheduled. This underground storage cavern, located in the southern Vietnamese province’s Phu My Town, is a key part of the US$1.35 billion polypropylene factory project of Hyosung Vina Chemicals Co., Ltd. (Hyosung Vina Chemicals), a South Korean company. ....
Inside the underground storage facility. Photo tuoitre.vn BARIA- VUNG TAU: A US$1.35 billion underground storage facility for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia with a huge storage capacity of 240,000 tonnes, is expected to soon become operational in the Mekong Delta province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu. As part of a polypropylene plant project by the South Korean-funded Hyosung Vina Chemicals company, the storage cavern has been built at a depth of between more than 100m to nearly 200m above sea level, with 95 per cent of its workload completed. Engineer Phạm Thị Hồng, an operator of the facility, said the facility lies under a layer of hard rock and is designed in an egg-shaped form so the pressure is distributed evenly. Meanwhile, its other technical factors will keep LPG from leaking out, she added. ....