Cà Mau Gas-Power-Fertilizer Complex (Vietnamese: Dự án Khí – Điện – Đạm Cà Mau) is a complex of

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plant,

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in commune of Khánh An, U Minh district,

Cà Mau province Cà Mau is a Provinces of Vietnam, province of Vietnam, named after Cà Mau, its capital city. It is located in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam, and is the southernmost of Vietnam's 63 provinces. It is bordered to the north by Kiên Giang p ...

, southern

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. The project is located by the junction of two rivers, near to Lower U Minh National Park, a low wetland area. Along with the

Cần Thơ Bridge Cần Thơ Bridge (), is a cable-stayed bridge over the Hậu ( Bassac) River, the largest distributary of the Mekong River, in the city of Cần Thơ in southern Vietnam. The bridge is 2.75 kilometres long (1.68 miles). It has a 6-lane carriagewa ...

it is one of the largest projects in the

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. The complex was invested by

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and includes two thermal gas-fuelled power plants (total capacity of 1,500 MW, main equipment supplied by

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), an and gas pipeline, a

plant (800,000 metric tons per annum). The 18-inch pipeline originates in PM3 gas field in the

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between

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and

and runs on the seabed 298 kilometers, gets landfall at Mui Tram, runs onshore 27 km to the complex.

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transported through this pipeline is fed to the power plants and fertilizer plants. Total designed transportation capacity of this pipeline reaches 2 billion cubic meters per annum. The construction of this pipeline achieved completion in February 2007. Both power plants were put into operation on 27 December 2008. The contractor of the pipeline was

Vietsovpetro The Russia-Vietnam Joint Venture – Vietsovpetro (VSP;,) is a joint Russo-Vietnamese enterprise for oil and gas exploration headquartered in Vung Tau, Vietnam. According to the VNR500 (Top 500) ranking, Vietsovpetro was Vietnam's 8th largest ...

, of the power plants was LILAMA, main equipment of power plant was supplied by

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