Petro Vietnam Finance sells bonds

Petro Vietnam-Finance Co (PVFC) on November 24 sold one trillion VND (55.6 million USD) worth of its corporate bonds to a group of four Vietnamese banks.
Petro Vietnam-Finance Co (PVFC) onNovember 24 sold one trillion VND (55.6 million USD) worth of itscorporate bonds to a group of four Vietnamese banks.

A signing ceremony to seal the deal with the Military Bank, Ocean Bank,Techcombank and VIB Bank was held on November 24 at the company’s newnine-story headquarters in Hanoi .

The sale is the first phase in a total issue of five trillion VND worthof bonds planned by PVFC between now and the end of the year, accordingto Nguyen Viet Ha, director of the PVFC investment department.

PVFC, with assets of 60.9 trillion VND, earned 4.4 trillion VND (237.8million VND) in revenues in the first ten months of this year,surpassing its target for the year by 14 percent. The company posted aprofit of 808 billion VND (43.6 million USD), an amount twice thetarget set for all of 2009.

The company now estimates earnings for entire year of five trillion VNDand a net profit of one trillion VND by the end of this year.

PVFC is an affiliate of the national oil and gas group Petro Vietnam ,which also reported on November 24 10-month earnings of 217.59 trillionVND (11.92 billion USD) in the period.

“Revenue decreased by 12 percent from the same period last year,” saidPetro Vietnam deputy director Le Minh Hong. “However, this stillreflected great efforts of the group because crude oil prices felldramatically, by 50 percent. The positive performance stemmed from highrevenues from services, which notched up 70 trillion VND, and accountedfor 30 percent of our total revenue.”

Petro Vietnam contributed about 72.5 trillion VND into the State Budget during the period.

The group also reported production of over 14 million tonnes of crudeoil, 6.5 billion cu.m of natural gas, 619,000 tonnes of fertiliser and6.8 billion Kwh of power during the period./.

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