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A Paragon Oil truck servicing a Brooklyn apartment building in the 1930s. Paragon Oil was an American oil company, founded in 1925 in New York City by the Schwartz family, and sold to Texaco in the late 1950s. It is not related to the Paragon Oil Company operating today in Brooklyn.
Nghi Son Refinery is the second oil refinery in Vietnam. It is located about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Hanoi in Tinh Gia District of Thanh Hóa Province. Site-clearing for the project broke ground in 2008. Construction began on 23 October 2013, and refinery operations were targeted for 2017. [1]
Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Vietnamese: Tập đoàn Dầu khí Việt Nam), commonly known as PetroVietnam (PVN; alternatively stylized Petrovietnam or PETROVIETNAM), is the state-owned national oil and gas corporation of Vietnam.
Vietnam had the fastest growth in coal use in Southeast Asia during 2011-2021, at an annual growth rate of 11%. [4]Data of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), 10 months of 2018 coal production was estimated at 34.35 million tons, up 10% over the same period in 2017, of which clean coal output of Vinacomin (TKV) was 29.6 million tons, up 10.9% over the same period last year. [5]
The Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation was initially created in January 1956 under the name Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation, set up by decree of the minister of commerce. [ 4 ] In July 2011, Petrolimex sold 2.56% of its shares in an IPO, raising $20 million, with the state still holding 94.99% of the capital.
Vietnam's oil reserves are in the range of 270–500 million tons. Oil production rose rapidly to 403,300 barrels per day (64,120 m 3 /d) in 2004, but output is believed to have peaked and is expected to decline gradually. In 2003, mining and quarrying accounted for 9.4% of GDP, and the sector employed 0.7% of the workforce.
Dung Quat refinery has a designed capacity of 6.5 million tons of crude oil annually, or 140 thousand barrels per day (22 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d). The capacity would be expanded to 10 million tons per year by 2013–2014. [10]
Dầu Tiếng Lake is an artificial lake in the three provinces of Tây Ninh, Bình Dương, and Bình Phước in the Southeast region, Vietnam. The lake was formed by damming the upper reaches of the Saigon River, making it the largest irrigation reservoir in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Construction of the lake began in 1981 after surveys ...