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Oil Moves Down on Inventory Rise

Oil Moves Down on Inventory Rise

Crude oil prices inched lower…

Vietnam’s Oil Production To Drop 10% Annually By 2025

Depleting mature fields and lack of new exploration and investment will result in Vietnam’s crude oil production declining by 10 percent every year until 2025, the state-run Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, or PetroVietnam, said on Wednesday.

Earlier this year, Vietnam’s government said it expected the country’s oil production in 2018 to decline by 14.7 percent compared to 2017 and to average around 227,130 bpd.

Vietnam pumped 320,000 bpd of oil and other liquids in 2016, down by 9 percent from the 2015 production of 350,000 bpd, EIA data shows. Although production has risen in some years, overall production has dropped from a peak of 403,000 bpd in 2004 as output from the large mature oil fields falls.

“The rise in recoverable reserves has slowed to an alarming rate, affecting the sustainability of the development of Vietnam’s oil and gas industry,” Reuters quoted PetroVietnam as saying on its website today.

Insufficient funds have prevented PetroVietnam from expanding exploration activities, the company noted.

Another deterrent to more exploration offshore is the geopolitical hot potato, the South China Sea, where Vietnam and China and a bunch of other countries around the sea are disputing territories in the busy maritime traffic waterway, parts of which are considered to contain a lot of oil and gas.

Vietnam suspended in March a drilling project in the South China Sea under pressure from China. A few weeks later, PetroVietnam issued a rare comment on the South China Sea tension, saying that the dispute would affect the Vietnamese company’s efforts to attract foreign investors to its offshore.

Vietnam’s falling production from mature fields is adding to the natural decline of production elsewhere in the world, which experts see as opening a supply gap in the early 2020s unless new large discoveries are made soon.

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The industry basically needs to replace one North Sea each year, as the world needs to replace 3 million bpd of supply decline from mature fields, while global oil demand continues to grow at a robust pace, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its Oil 2018 report in March this year.

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

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