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On September 5, 2019in Hanoi, at the meeting with Mr. David Stone, General Director of Vietnam Market of AES Group (United States), Mr. Nguyen Van Binh, the Head of Central Economic Committee said that the AES group would contribute to investing in liquefied natural gas (LNG) fired power projects is very much suitable with the development orientation of Vietnam.

Speaking at a meeting with representatives of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) on the current situation of implementation of the gas power projects in Dung Quat area, Mr. Dang Van Minh, Vice Chairman of Quang Ngai provincial people’s committee (PPC) expressed that the Quang Ngai PPC always supports EVN to deploy the gas power projects in Quang Ngai.

From the results of the international conference "Policies for developing the wind, solar and gas power projects in Vietnam" organized by the Department of Electricity and Renewable Energy - Ministry of Industry and Trade, Scientific Council of Vietnam Energy Magazine at the end of August 2022 in Ho Chi Minh City, the Conference Organizing Committee has reported to the Prime Minister and the Central Economic Commission on mechanisms and policies for developing these power projects in coming time.

On May 22, in Hanoi, the United State Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) and the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) signed an agreement on USTDA fund of US$ 1.4 million for EVN to implement the project "Technical support for studying development of the gas power projects in Southern Vietnam".

After highly agreeing to propose the Prime Minister agreed to transfer the investor of O Mon 3 and O Mon 4 gas-fired thermal power projects from the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN). Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha proposed the two sides urgently transfer all the implementation results, as well as the obligations and responsibilities of the investor related to these two projects.

The first wind power plants in Soc Trang province, including Lac Hoa wind power, Quoc Vinh wind power and wind power No. 7 have just been closed by the Southern Power System Dispatch Center (A2) and the investors have successful energizing.

The Prime Minister issued Decision No.2414 dated December 11, 2013 on amending the list and schedule of a few of power transmission grid and resource projects in the period 2013-2020,  providing for a few of special mechanisms and policies on investment in urgent power projects in order to meet  demands for power in the period of 2014-2020 and the post-2020 period.

The Prime Minister issued Decision No.2414 dated December 11, 2013 on amending the list and schedule of a number of power projects in the period 2013-2020, stipulating some special mechanisms and policies for implementing urgent power projects in order to meet  power demand in 2014-2020 and after 2020 periods.

Dong Nai People's Committee has just submitted a document to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) for considering and appraising 8 solar power projects to submit to the Prime Minister for additional approving these projects to the National Power Development Planning (NPDP) up to 2025.

The Government Office has consulted ministries and sectors on Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PVN) to transfer Nhon Trach 3 & 4 thermal power projects to PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV Power) for investment.

Prime Minister has accepted the proposal of Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to correct the coal-fired thermal power projects in Adjusted Power Planning VII by adjusting the capacity of An Khanh project (in Bac Giang province with an old name as Luc Nam) from 100 MW to 650 MW and supplementing an independent project (IPP) of 100 MW (2x50 MW) for electricity supplying Duc Giang Chemical Joint-Stock Company (Lao Cai province) without connection with national power system.

On March 14, 2019, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Trinh Dinh Dung received Vice Chairman of Gazprom Group (Russia). The Vice President of Gazprom proposed to the Vietnamese Government that in the coming time, Gazprom wants to develop more new investment projects in Vietnam in the oil and gas field, from exploration, exploitation, transportation to processing and trading  products ...

From now to 2025, the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN) will expect to exploit 6 - 10 new oil and gas projects including RC-8 of Dragon field, BK-22 rig, and BK-4A rig of Bach Ho field and a number of structures in Block 09.1, White Whale (Kinh Ngu Trang) – Southern White Whale field, Lot 05.1a, Gold Camel -A rig and 2 gas projects as Swan – Gull (Thien Nga - Hai Au), Nam Du - U Minh fields. In the period of 2025 - 2030, PVN will strive to put large gas projects into operation such as Block B (quarter 4/2026), White Lion (Su Tu Trang) - Phase 2 B (September 2026), and Blue Whale (2028).

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has just signed the decision to approve investing in "shared infrastructure" project between EVN and Singapore Sembcorp for Dung Quat combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT) power plants 1, 2&3.    

Information from PVN showed that in 11 months of 2016, PVN completed investment and put into operation the RC -9 (9-lot) project at 6/6/2016 ahead by schedule by a month and 9 days, Tam Dao 5 self-lifting drilling rig at 12/8/2016, and successfully launched the topside of BK Thien Ung gas  exploiting rig at 12/9/2016. Besides, the group also finished installation of generator of the second  unit of Thai Binh 2 thermal power plant at 12/4/2016.