HANOI: Vietnam’s crude oil exports in the January-August period fell an estimated 0.6 percent from a year ago to 6.19 million tonnes, or 187,000 barrels per day (bpd), the government said on Wednesday.
The crude oil export value in the eight-month period plunged 48.7 percent to $2.74 billion from the same period in 2014, the General Statistics Office said.
Oil product imports rose 8.1 percent in the same period to an estimated 6.68 million tonnes, with the value easing 35.1 percent to $3.78 billion, the office said in its monthly report.
Vietnam also imported an estimated 699,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas during the eight-month period, up 21.5 percent from the corresponding period last year, it said.
