An MOIT report shows there are 29 petrol distribution chains in Vietnam and the number has been increasing rapidly in the last year with at least five distributors set up this year. 

The Vietnam National Petroleum Group and Myanmar’s HTOO Group of Companies have recently signed a deal in Hanoi, under which they will explore the possibility of jointly doing business in Myanmar. 

VietNamNet Bridge - MOIT has said that it could not find exact statistics about the annual consumption of petroleum products in Vietnam when it was drafting the program on the crude oil and petroleum product storage system.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese Petrolimex Petrochemistry will be under pressure as TASCO, the Thai bitumen manufacturer, has bought 41 plants in Vietnam and Indonesia from a French manufacturer.

VietNamNet Bridge - By the end of 2014, Petrolimex, the Vietnam Petroleum Import/Export Corporation (Petrolimex), held 48 percent of the domestic petroleum distribution market.

VietNamNet Bridge - Doubts have been raised about the feasibility of a plan to replace A92 petrol with E5 biofuel, even though distributors have been told to stop selling A92 to focus on E5.

VietNamNet Bridge - The average petrol import price in the last six months was 40 percent lower than that of the same period last year, but the retail price has decreased by 20 percent only.

VietNamNet Bridge – The recent moves taken by state-owned corporations and management agencies signal inevitable increases in petrol and electricity prices.

Ministries could not reach an agreement on retail petrol prices and import tariffs. They considered two options: raise the import tariff and cut the petrol retail price, or leave the import tariff unchanged and cut petrol prices sharply.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thailand’s PTT Public Company Limited, one of the two main investors of Nhon Hoi oil refinery complex, has proposed partnering with Vietnam National Petroleum Group to develop a multi-billion-dollar project

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese JX Nippon Oil & Energy is expected to enter the Vietnamese petroleum retail market, which has yet to open to foreign investors.

 A memorandum of understanding was signed between JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp and the Viet Nam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) late last week in Ha Noi.

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