Anyone when talking about Ba
Ria-Vung Tau also thinks of the place where oil and gas
exploitation industry has been developed. Actually, oil
and gas are its important resources having the biggest
economic potentiality on the continental shelf of the
province. In here, Cuu Long Sedimentary Basin, and Nam Con
Son basin are considered as having favorable exploitation
conditions ,and the biggest oil and gas prospects
comparatively with other basins in the whole
country. A lot of oilfields with
considerable reserves have been found such as Bach Ho, Rong,
Dai Hung, Thanh Long, etc. of which the industrial reserves
reach over 300 million tons of recovered oil, the proportion
of associated gas is 150 – 180 m3/ton of oil and
the exploitation output over 20 million tons per year.
According to foreign experts in
geology, Vietnam sea area has a lot of single stratum
structure and the potential in nature gas is much bigger than
oil, about 200 – 300 billion m3 with an exploitation capacity
of 5 –6 billion m3. Particularly in Con Son belonging to the
continental shelf of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, two big gas mines
discovered are Lan Tay and Lan Do with reserves of about 58
billion m3 and the stable exploitation capacity of
1.0 – 3.0 billion m3/year or more depending on the
demand.
With the aim of serving the
industrialization and modernization of the nation, the oil and
gas exploitation on Ba Ria-Vung Tau continental shelf is of
important significance. Only two years and a half after its
foundation, Vietsopetro discovered oil in Bach Ho oilfield and
June 26,1986 saw its first ton of oil of the country to be
exploited. Vietsopetro has exploited 50 million tons of oil
until October 12,1997 and 100 million tons until November
21,2001.
In the recent years, the crude oil
has become the most important export goods of Vietnam and
brought back the significant export turnover for the
nation. In 2001, 16.7 million tons of crude oil has been
exported, getting 3127.5 million dollars of export
turnover.
Together with crude oil, the
associated gas has been exploited as well. The gas output is
also on the high increasing. In 1995, the first year of
collecting and bring gas to the shore, its output is 183
million m3; and in 2000, 1.5 billion m3.
For the time being, 4 – 5 million m3 /day on
average is brought to the shore.
In the near future, the province
calls for investment in the gas and oil exploitation as
follows:
Continue the exploration in
order to find out more mines to increase the output
Raise the domestic service
proportion and expand services in other fields
Encourage
investors to invest in industrial zones of the province to
develop the gas industry in Ba Ria-Vung Tau
38 Nguyen Truong To St., Ward 3, Vung Tau City, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, Vietnam.
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