HANOI: Vietnam’s crude oil exports in the January-September period rose an estimated 4.7 percent from a year ago to 7.16 million tonnes, or 192,000 barrels per day (bpd), the government said.
The value of crude oil exports in the nine-month period plunged 47.4 percent to $3.05 billion from the same time in 2014, the General Statistics Office said.
Oil product imports climbed 7.5 percent in the same period to an estimated 7.1 million tonnes, with the value dropping 36.2 percent to $3.95 billion, the office said in its monthly report.
Vietnam also imported an estimated 819,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas during the nine-month span, up 24.6 percent from the corresponding period last year, it said.
