Meanwhile, the rig PV Drilling II will start a 100-day drilling campaign in Vietnamfrom September, according to the corporation.
It said from August 2020, a number of tenders for oil drilling this yearin Vietnam as well as the Southeast Asian region have become scarce with 26 outof 61 jack-up rigs in the region unemployed.
PV Drilling also suffered the same difficulty when both rigs of PV Drilling IIand PV Drilling III had to cease operations in Malaysia from July 2020 and June2020, respectively, significantly earlier than their contractual plan.
Therefore, PV Drilling will monitor the supply-demand situation in the marketto seek new drilling contracts to meet business targets for this yearapproved at PV Drilling’s general meeting of shareholders.
PV Drilling believes that all of its jack-up rigs would have worknext year. Of which, from the second quarter of 2021, its rig PV Drilling Vwould start to carry out a long-term contract signed with Brunei ShellPetroleum (BSP).
The corporation reported that it gained year on year growth of 64percent in total revenue during the first six months of this year to 3.18trillion VND (137.5 million USD). While, its post-tax profit reached 85 billionVND, higher than that of 22 billion VND in the first six months of last year./.