Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung and Paul Greenwood, ExxonMobil Vice President for Gas and Power Marketing |
At a meeting with Paul Greenwood, ExxonMobil Vice President for Gas and Power Marketing in Hanoi on October 10, the Deputy PM lauded the firm for its engagements in the project, which is essential to ensuring national energy security and operating thermal power plants in the central region.
He reaffirmed the Vietnamese Government’s commitment to creating optimal conditions so the project could start pumping gas out of the Ca Voi Xanh field in 2023.
For his part, Greenwood said that the project is important for ExxonMobil in fostering cooperation with Vietnam in utilising and producing oil and gas products.
He gave some proposals on removing obstacles for the firm and the Vietnamese side to soon reach a final agreement.
The Ca Voi Xanh field is about 100 km
east of the central coast.
The Prime Minister has recently approved the construction of four gas-fired
power plants in Quang Nam and Quang Ngai with total a capacity of 3,000MW using
gas from the field.
The PM has also agreed to use part of the gas taken from the field to develop
the oil refinery industry.
Source:NDO