OREANDA-NEWS. State-owned PetroVietnam Group is focused on hydrocarbon exploration, production, processing, transportation and sales.

Vietgazprom, joint operating company of Gazprom (50 per cent stake) and PetroVietnam (50 per cent stake), is engaged in exploration activities in blocks No. 112, 129–132 located on the continental shelf of Vietnam. From 2013 Vietgazprom has been running commercial production of gas from the Moc Tinh and Hai Thach fields of licensed blocks 05.2 and 05.3 offshore Vietnam, with recoverable gas and condensate reserves amounting to 35.9 billion cubic meters and 15.2 million tons respectively.

In 2009 Gazprom and PetroVietnam entered into the Agreement on Strategic Partnership envisaging, inter alia, the companies’ cooperation in oil and gas projects in Russia, Vietnam and third countries.

In 2014 Gazprom and PetroVietnam signed the Framework Agreement on terms and conditions of the joint development of the Nagumanovskoye oil, gas and condensate field (5.8 billion cubic meters of proven in-place gas reserves and 1,683 thousand tons of recoverable condensate reserves and 960 thousand tons of recoverable oil reserves) and the Severo-Purovskoye gas and condensate field (45.5 billion cubic meters of proven in-place gas reserves and 6,826 thousand tons of recoverable condensate reserves). Gazpromviet holds a subsurface use license for both fields (Gazprom – 51 per cent, PetroVietnam – 49 per cent).

Dung Quat, Vietnam’s only oil refinery, has an output of 6.5 million tons per year.