Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

The first comprehensive overhaul of the two-year-old Dung Quat Oil Refinery cost nearly double the budgeted figure since some equipment had to be replaced, the operator said Friday.

State oil and gas group PetroVietnam plans to sell a 49 percent stake in its Dung Quat oil refinery to help provide funding put at $1 billion to expand the plant's capacity, a state-run news website said.

Hanoi - Vietnam's sole oil refinery may soon exhaust its petrol storage capacity and be forced to cut back production, the refinery's chairman said Friday.

HANOI - La société française Technip a retardé le transfert de gestion de la raffinerie de pétrole brut de Dung Quat, au Viêtnam, au groupe Pietrovietnam en raison de "problèmes techniques", rapporte lundi un journal officiel.

Experts believe that it is now the right time to change Dung Quat Economic Zone (EZ) into an industrial city under Quang Ngai province to create a new driving force in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI).

Vietnam opens its first oil refinery today, overcoming the withdrawal of foreign partners including Total SA, and international criticism that the $3 billion project is in the wrong place and won’t boost the economy.

HANOI - State oil monopoly Petrovietnam is in talks with a number of foreign oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell , India's Essar and South Korea's SK Energy to upgrade and sell part of the country's first refinery.

With its glittering bright lights and surrounded by pine forests that whistle in the dark night, Dung Quat Oil Refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai looks like a small but beautiful city.

Dinh Van Ngoc, deputy general director of Binh Son Oil Refine Ltd Co confirmed that Dung Quat Oil Refinery would be put into operation on February 25, 2009.

HANOI - A damaged offshore cargo hose at Vietnam's first refinery, scheduled to come onstream in February next year, has caused an oil spill off the country's central coast, provincial officials said on Wednesday.

D'ici au mois de février prochain, il est indispensable de faire fonctionner à titre expérimental la raffinerie de Dung Quât afin de la mettre en service au délai fixé, a déclaré le vice-Premier ministre Hoàng Trung Hai, qui vient de présider la conférence-bilan dimanche à cette usine, après 39 mois de construction.

HANOI - Le groupe gazo-pétrolier PetroVietnam a demandé au gouvernement de lui donner le feu vert pour céder des actions de la première raffinerie du pays à des partenaires étrangers, a rapporté lundi le journal Investment.