OREANDA-NEWS. During the official visit to the Russian Federation Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung visited Zarubezhneft JSC, where he met with the General Director of the company Sergey Kudryashov.

Parties discussed key aspects of cooperation between "Zarubezhneft" JSC and Vietnamese state corporation "Petrovietnam" in the field of joint projects implementation in Vietnam and Russia and activity prospects.

Sergey Kudryashov expressed his appreciation to the Prime Minister of SRV for the visit and emphasized that "Zarubezhneft" JSC is ready to develop cooperation with "Petrovietnam OGC" in a number of fields.

Sergey Kudryashov said that today Memorandum of understanding with the General Director of "Petrovietnam" OGC Do Van Hau will be signed and that will be another step in direction of development and expansion of partnership between the two companies and will allow to start implementation new projects in Vietnam, Russia and in the third countries.

Also Kudryashov said that there are plans to form with "Petrovietnam" OGC the Joint drilling company, and today the corresponding document will be signed. According to Kudryashov, taking into account drilling capacities of "Zarubezhneft" JSC and "Petrovietnam" OGC, this company may become a serious player of the oil and gas market.

Prime Minister of SRV Nguyen Tan Dung noted that the Government of Vietnam highly appreciates activity of the two state companies in Vietnam and Russia. He expressed his appreciation to the Russian side for significant contribution of the Russian specialists to creation and development of oil and gas industry of Vietnam and rendered invaluable help to the Vietnamese state.

Prime Minister assured, that the Government of Vietnam will from now on render extensive support to the projects of "Zarubezhneft" JSC and "Petrovietnam" OGC for constant developing of cooperation on the basis of available opportunities and high potential of the two companies.

After the talks Prime Minister of SRV visited museum exposition of "Zarubezhneft" JSC, main part of which is devoted to the unique long-term experience of joint work of Zarubezhneft and Petrovietnam and signed the Visitor`s book.

Atmosphere of the meeting was warm and friendly.