Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung and Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Cora van Nieuwenhuizen agreed at their meeting in Hanoi on April 9 to tighten joint work to design and implement suitable policies and measures to cope with climate change. The Vietnamese Government official welcomed his guest to Vietnam, […]

The forum took place in South Africa’s capital Pretoria on March 14 and 15 under the co-chair of Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Cuong and South African Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Reginah Mhaule. At the forum, Vietnamese and South African ministries and sectors reviewed bilateral cooperation since their third meeting, which […]

Washington (VNA) – Vietnam and the US have set up a comprehensive energy cooperation partnership under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in Washington on September 30. The document was inked by representatives of the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the US Department of State during a working trip to the US from September […]

Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Electricity National Power Transmission Corporation (EVNNPT) and the US Embassy in Vietnam held a seminar in Hanoi on May 30 to discuss opportunities in Vietnam’s power transmission development. Speaking at the event, Chairman of EVNNPT’s Management Board Dang Phan Tuong said EVNNPT is wholly owned by the State and in charge […]

Vietnam has had major stressors placed upon its power and energy grid for years, and it is only accelerating. At a recent April, 2019 conference on renewable energy in Ho Chi Minh City, experts noted that annual energy consumption in [Vietnam] had risen by 10 per cent in recent years, and the country was at […]

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s coal and crude oil imports surged in the first ten months of this year, government data released on Tuesday showed, highlighting the Southeast Asian country’s increasing reliance on imported energy to support its fast-growing economy. Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia, backed by robust exports and foreign investment. […]

HANOI — Vietnam’s state-controlled Petrolimex, the top distributor of gasoline to the country’s more than 40 million motorbikes, aims to diversify operations ahead of a projected long-term slowdown in demand for the fuel. Formally called Vietnam National Petroleum Group, the company operates about 5,000 gas stations nationwide and has added locations at a pace of 70 […]

On 12 April 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam (“MOIT“) released the third draft (“Third Draft“) of the Decision of the Prime Minister on the mechanism for encouraging the development of solar power in Vietnam, applicable from 1 July 2019 (“Draft Decision“). In addition to proposing new Feed-in-Tariffs for application from 1 […]

HANOI, April 1 (Xinhua) — Vietnam imported 2 million tons of various kinds of oil and petroleum products totaling nearly 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter of this year, posting respective year-on-year drops of 42.6 percent and 47.6 percent, its Ministry of Industry and Trade said on Monday. Meanwhile, the country imported 349,000 […]

HANOI: PetroVietnam Drilling & Well Services Corp, or PV Drilling, said on Monday it had won a contract to lease an oil rig to Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sdn Bhd (BSP) for drilling in Brunei. Under the contract, PV Drilling will lease the semi-submersible self-erecting tender assist drilling rig, PV Drilling V, to BSP for six years from April 2021, […]