The Talisman Vietnam Ltd Company will grant postgraduate scholarships worth 160,000 USD to Vietnamese students in 2011, the Canadian Embassy in Hanoi said on June 30.

Under the programme, the company will offer full scholarships to Vietnamese students who major in geology, geophysics, environmental engineering and energy management to purse further study in the University of Alberta.

Apart from scholarship programmes, Talisman has been involved in several community development programmes including mine and explosive disposal, corrective surgery and scholarships for disadvantaged children.

Talisman Energy Inc is an oil and gas exploitation and exploration company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with subsidiaries in North America, North Sea, North Africa and Southeast Asia including Vietnam. In 2009, two students from Ho Chi Minh City received scholarships from the company./.