Crude oil prices ped sharply, negatively impacting the production and business activities of PetroVietnam in May, however, through consistent and proactive management, the company achieved high growth across all financial indicators.
Given the tightening of crude supplies in the global market, the oil and gas drilling segment is in high demand, boosting the business prospects of upstream service providers.
According to MoIT, shorter price cycles are better at keeping domestic prices closer to the global oil prices, even during holidays (except Tết) to minimise the risk of market disruptions.
To deal with fuel prices, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) just proposed raising air service prices on domestic routes to the Ministry of Transport (MoT).
Enterprises in charge of importing petrol and oil will be strictly punished, and could even be suspended from operating, if found to be illegally holding petrol and oil to sell at a higher price later.
Oil prices have continuously increased since the beginning of the year on the production cut agreement of OPEC+ and the global recovery in fuel demand.
State capital management at PV Gas has recently been transferred from the Ministry of Industry and Trade to the Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises.