Russia – Vietnam's priority energy partner
President of Vietnam Truong Tang Sang will discuss energy issues, the expansion of economic ties and other strategic partnership questions with Russia’s leadership. Truong Tang’s four-day visit to Russia began on Thursday and the President has already held talks with Russian Prime Minister Medvedev. On Friday he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi.
Russia and Vietnam are close strategic partners who have made serious advancements in bilateral relations in the last years, Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev said at his meeting with President Truong Tang Sang. Strategic partnership and the realization of bilateral projects, first of all in the energy field is especially important. ROSATOM will be in charge of building the first nuclear power station in Vietnam.
A total of 8 nuclear power plants are planned to be built in the country. Such large-scale plans are explained by the growing energy demand in Vietnam, deputy minister of science and technology Lye Din Tiyen explained.
"The economy of Vietnam has been undergoing rapid development in recent years and the energy demand in the republic will only grow. Traditional energy sources such as oil, gas and hydro resources are already not enough to supply the demand. That’s why we need nuclear energy."
There was a struggle for the opportunity to build NPPs in Vietnam between Chinese, Japanese, American and Russian companies. In the end ROSATOM was chosen.
Earlier, head of ROSATOM Sergei Kiriyenko said that agreements had been reached with Hanoi not only on the construction of NPPs but also on the creation of a research center. Apart from that Moscow is already helping in training branch specialists.
Joint nuclear energy development is a new direction in the Russia-Vietnam relations. However cooperation continues in the more traditional oil and gas industry as well. The leading Russian player in the region, ZARUBEZHNEFT, has been operating in Vietnam since the Soviet times.
ZARUBEZHNEFT realizes joint projects in Russia as well. On July 29 RUSVIETPETRO, a joint venture between ZARUBEZHNEFT and Vietnam's PETROVIETNAM, plans to start production at an oil field in Western Syberia. The potential of that oil field is more than 1.5 million tons of oil.
GAZPROM, being responsible for Russia’s cooperation with Vietnam in the oil sector, is exploring 4 blocks on the Vietnamese shelf and plans to launch LNG supplies. GAZPROM has also transferred the exploration and production license for the North Purovskoye gas condensate field in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district to GAZPROMVIET, a joint venture between GAZPROM and PETROVIETNAM.
The Voice of Russia
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