Prime Minister calls for mastering offshore wind energy technology
VGP - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called on the Viet Nam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) to accelerate technology transfer for wind turbine and master the offshore wind energy development technology.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (6th from L)) attends the launching and delivery of offshore windfarm foundations from Petrovietnam to Orsted, in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, December 1, 2024 - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac
The Government chief made the call while addressing a series of events hosted by Petrovietnam and Petrovietnam Technical Services Corporation (PTSC) in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau on December 1.
Specifically, State-owned Petrovietnam delivered 33 offshore windfarm foundations to Orsted, marking a turning point for Ba Ria-Vung Tau province to become a renewable energy hub in Viet Nam.
He tasked ministries, sectors and Ba Ria – Vung Tau province to work with the Government to build rational mechanisms and policies for the group, revise relevant laws, and outline planning to facilitate businesses’ development.
Additionally, the Prime Minister stressed that Petrovietnam must continue expanding international cooperation to bring benefits to the nation and protect the national territorial sovereignty.
Pham also attended a first-cut ceremony for offshore windfarm substations supplied to the Baltica 2 project. Baltica 2 is part of the 2.5 GW Baltica Offshore Wind Farm, jointly developed by Denmark's Orsted and Poland's Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE). The event marked the first time a Vietnamese firm has exported offshore windfarm substations to Europe.
The same day, Petrovietnam held a first-cut ceremony for the Block B central processing platform and a granting ceremony for the floating storage and offloading (FSO) contract for Lac Da Vang oilfield.
Block B central processing platform is a key component of Block B-O Mon gas-to-power project, a mega and long-delayed project of Viet Nam with an investment of US$12 billion.
The exploited gas, 433 kilometers off the coast of southern Viet Nam, can reach 5.06 billion cubic meters a year and will be transported to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho for the 3,810-MW O Mon power complex, which comprises the O Mon 1, O Mon 2, O Mon 3, and O Mon 4 power plants./.
