HANOI: Vietnam’s January-March crude oil exports fell 15.8 percent from a year ago to an estimated 1.53 million tonnes, or 125,000 barrels per day (bpd), the government said on Wednesday. Crude oil export revenue in the three months, however, rose 29.7 percent from the same time last year to $650 million, the government’s General Statistics Office said in its monthly report.
Oil product imports fell 4.3 percent in the same period to an estimated 2.63 million tonnes, while the value jumped 56.6 percent to $1.43 billion, the report said. Vietnam’s liquefied petroleum gas imports during the first three month of this year edged down 0.6 percent from a year ago to 313,000 tonnes, it added.