A Japanese investor in Vietnam’s Nghi Son refinery, Idemitsu, has said that it has booked a US$263 million provision for bad debt generated by the refinery in the financial year ended March 31. This is reportedly due to increased costs on the back of rising US interest rates. There is,

An attempt to unite Vietnam’s petroleum retailers into an ‘association’ has been knocked back by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), Tuoi Tre is reporting. The MoIT says the proposed name and function of the group would overlap with the existing Vietnam Petroleum Association (VPA). In Vietnam, ‘associations’ are

Kuwait Petroleum International is considering waiving the interest on the loans of its partners in Vietnam’s Nghi Son refinery, the Arab Times is reporting. This could also see the interest rate on said loans possibly reduced to 0 percent. The publication notes that at the end of December there was

Nghi Son oil refinery operators will be compensated VND 8,247 billion (US$338.1 million) for variations in the price they were permitted to sell their petrol products and the price of the same products imported, Tuoi Tre is reporting. Key points: Vietnam’s state-owned Petrovietnam (PVN) is required to buy all of

A group of investors connected to Kuwait Petroleum International, which has a 35.1 percent stake in Vietnam’s Nghi Son oil refinery, visited the facility yesterday, the Kuwait News Agency is reporting. This comes after speculation that the refinery could report a loss of US$1 billion this year which may signal

Petrol retailers in Vietnam are now allowed to source petrol from up to three distributors as opposed to one previously, Doanh Nhan Vietnam is reporting. The changes are outlined in Decree 80/2023/ND-CP. Why it matters: Petrol shortages were common last year as oil prices spiked and prices set by the

In a visit to Vietnam’s Nghi Son oil refinery on Saturday, Vietnam’s Prime Minister, Pham Minh Chinh, said that the challenges facing the refinery could be solve with more local leadership and more decentralisation, The Investor is reporting. “There need to be more Vietnamese people in the company’s leadership. More

Petrol prices in Vietnam, in the first ten months of this year, dropped by 13.24 percent over the same period last year and this has helped to keep inflation in check, The Leader is reporting. Conversely, VN Express is reporting that petrol retailers have called on the PM for help

An investment certificate granted in 2007 for a new oil refinery in Vietnam’s Phu Yen province has been rescinded 16 years later after the investors decided not to go ahead with the project, The Investor is reporting. It is not clear why the investors pulled out, however, the two firms