Work started on May 16 on the installation of the steel frame for the first boiler of the nation’s largest thermo-electric power plant in the central province of Ha Tinh.
The installation of this decisive facility is being undertaken by the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group and the Vietnam Machinery Installation General Corporation (Lilama).
As the main contractor for the Vung Ang No. 1 plant, Lilama said it is determined to complete the work before November 15 to enable the plant’s first turbine group to operate in the third quarter of 2012 and the second turbine group in the first quarter, 2013, as planned.
Earlier, Lilama signed with Chinese contractors GEDI and AE & E a contract to jointly design and provide a sulfur treatment system for the plant.
The 32-million-USD contract will make the power plant become the first in the country to be armed with the sulfur treatment system using sea water, according to Lilama Corp. General Director Pham Hung.
The 1.588-billion-USD power plant is the country’s largest thermo-electric power plant with a designed full capacity of 1,200 MW./.