ExxonMobil will invest in the gas exploitation project at Ca Voi Xanh (Blue Whale) field (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Phung Quoc Hien helda reception for Paul Greenwood, Vice President of Africa and Asia PacificBusiness Development at ExxonMobil Gas and Power Marketing in Hanoi on November9.
Lauding Greenwood’s visit to Vietnam to attend the APEC 2017 Economic Leaders’Week, Hien appraised ExxonMobil’s participation in the gas exploitation andinvestment project at Ca Voi Xanh (Blue Whale) field.
The project will help Vietnam ensure national energy security and lay a foundationto construct and operate its gas power plants in the central region, he said,noting that the Vietnamese National Assembly will create favourable conditionsto ensure sound implementation of the project in line with Vietnamese andinternational regulations.
For his part, Greenwood stressed that the Ca Voi Xanh project is important tothe corporation in bolstering its cooperation with Vietnamese Government in exploitingand producing oil and gas products.
ExxonMobile expects to receive support from the Vietnamese Government andNational Assembly so that the cooperative project can be successful to bringbenefits to both sides.
Ca Voi Xanh field is about 100 kilometres east of the central coast. The PrimeMinister approved the construction of four gas-fired power plants in thecentral provinces of Quang Nam and Quang Ngai with total capacity of 3,000 MWusing gas from the field. The PM also agreed to use part of the gas taken fromthe field to develop oil refinery industry.
Over the past 135 years, ExxonMobil has evolved from a regional marketer ofkerosene in the US to the largest publicly traded petroleum and petrochemicalenterprise in the world. It operates in most of the world’s countries and isbest known by familiar brand names: Exxon, Esso and Mobil. It makes productsthat drive modern transportation, power cities, lubricate industry and providepetrochemical building blocks that lead to thousands of consumer goods.-VNA
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