Text of report in English by state-run Vietnamese news agency VNA website [Unattributed article from the "Business" page: "Dung Quat refinery to use imported crude oil"] Hanoi (VNA) -The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN) is negotiating with BP of Britain and Shell of the US to import crude oil for the Dung Quat refinery, which is scheduled to start operation in February next year.

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation, also known as PetroVietnam Corporation, has selected a front-end engineering design contractor for the proposed $6.2 billion, 10 million-ton-per-year (about 214,000 barrels per day) crude oil refinery in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam.

Petrovietnam, the state-owned Vietnamese oil company, is seeking government approval to invest $614 million in an joint venture with the Russian oil company Zarubezhneft to tap crude oil in the Nenet region of Russia, according to a report in a state-run newspaper, The Vietnam Investment Review.

Text of report in English by state-run Vietnamese news agency VNA website [Unattributed article from the "Business" page: "PetroVietnam to build ethanol plant in Quang Ngai"] Quang Ngai (VNA) -A bio-ethanol plant will be built at the Dung Quat Economic Zone in central Quang Ngai province next year with investment from three subsidiaries of the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam).

First oil refinery in Vietnam to sell propylene to Japan HANOI, Sept.