At a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung in Hanoi, Ed said the group has invested more than US$1 billion in the oil and gas sector in Vietnam over the past 19 years.
With the capital, the SOCO has become the biggest British investor in the Southeast Asian nation, he said, adding that the group has contributed US$ 3.3 billion to the host country’s budget, employed more than 1,000 locals and provided US$2.5 million for local social welfare activities.
For his part, Deputy PM Dung spoke highly of SOCO’s oil and gas exploration and exploitation in Vietnam’s continental shelf over the past time, as well as its contributions to the country’s budget, job creation and social welfare activities.
The Vietnamese Government always creates favourable conditions for businesses, including SOCO, to invest in the oil and gas sector, contributing to raising oil and gas output and operation efficiency in the country, he stressed.
