Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Tests on gasoline samples suspected of being related to recent vehicular fires in Vietnam revealed no excessive additives which might have caused the blazes, Tuoi Tre reported Saturday.

A delegation of 15 French companies is present in Hanoi from October 25-29 to take part in the “French Pavilion” organised by UBIFRANCE Vietnam during the Oil and Gas Exhibition.

HANOI: Unfazed by Chinese threats, Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang today said India and other foreign nations were welcome to explore hydrocarbons in areas within his country's jurisdiction, as he sought to deepen strategic and defence ties with New Delhi.

NEW DELHI: Brushing aside China's warning on Thursday asking countries "outside the region" to stay away from the South China Sea, foreign minister SM Krishna told his Vietnam counterpart Pham Binh Minh that India's ONGC Videsh will go ahead with oil and gas exploration in the disputed region or the two offshore blocks which Vietnam claims as its own.

Vietnam reduced the price of oil products by as much as 2.3 percent after inflation surged to a 33-month high.

The Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation (Petrolimex) has announced its plan to build a 200 km-long pipeline to import oil products from China's Guangxi to Quang Ninh province in Vietnam.

Retail petrol prices rose by VND2, 000 per litre on March 29, with A92 petrol increasing to VND21, 300 per litre.

HANOI—Vietnam's government raised prices of gasoline and other fuel products by as much as 24%, an industry official said, likely complicating the task of taming what may be Asia's most difficult inflationary problem.

Russian state oil firm Zarubezhneft will sign a deal with Vietnam's PetroVietnam in October to develop the 09-1 oil field off the south of the Asian country, Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.

Vietnam, which maintains tight control over retail fuel prices, will give distributors more autonomy in pricing oil products, the government said on Saturday.

MAPUTO - Vietnam's national oil and gas group, PetroVietnam, plans to invest around $85 million in a gas project in Mozambique, a senior government official said on Wednesday.

A US official voiced concern Wednesday about tensions between China and Vietnam over the resource-rich South China Sea and pledged to defend US oil companies operating in the region.

HANOI - BP PLC (BP) will withdraw from exploration blocks 5.2 and 5.3 offshore of Vietnam, a company official said Friday. "This decision was made on the company's business consideration," said the official, who declined to be named.

HANOI — Vietnam's oil and gas giant PetroVietnam on Tuesday reported record sales for 2008 of 280,000 billion dong, or more than 16 billion dollars, thanks partly to high global energy prices early this year.

HANOI — Vietnam lowered fuel prices by 8 percent Tuesday as world oil prices fell to three-year lows.