3:27:37 PM | 3/13/2008
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has recently submitted to the Vietnamese government for approval a project to manufacture oil drilling platforms, to be developed by Vietnamese oilrig maker PV Shipyard.
The project’s first product will be a 60-meter self-elevating mobile drilling unit that meets international standards.
The automatic platform, to be floated at sea, represents ’s first mechanically engineered product employing high-level technology.
The Vung Tau city-based PV Shipyard has signed a cooperative agreement with LeTourneau Technology Inc., a manufacturer of front-end loaders, log stackers and self-elevating mobile offshore drilling rigs, to develop projects to build mobile oil platforms in .
(Young People, Thanh Nien Daily)
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