Vietsovpetro and the VRJ invested more than 342 million USD in drillingand installing rigs for 10 wells along with other facilities under acooperation agreement signed last June.
The first industrial oil flow was pumped from Nam Rong-Doi Moi on Jan.26 this year. With its four current wells, the oilfield has an outputof 700 tonnes per day.
In order to take associated gas and gas lift, Vietsovpetro on the sameday started work on construction of the Rong-Doi Moi gas compressingrig with a total investment of 149.6 million USD. The Vietnam NationalOil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) is the investor.
The project is scheduled to be put into operation late this year.
Vietsovpetro plans to tap 6-6.2 million tonnes of crude oil and 595million cu.m of gas next year. With an estimated average price of 495USD per tonne, its turnover would be worth more than 3 billion USD./.