(VOVworld) – On Wednesday, Vietnam and Russia signed an inter-governmental agreement on further geological survey and oil and gas exploitation in Russia and also a protocol amending the inter-governmental agreement dated December 27, 2010 on continued cooperation in geological survey and oil and gas exploitation on Vietnam’s continental shelf by Vietsovpetro.

At the ceremony (Photo: VNA)

Signed by Vietnam’s Industry and Trade Minister Tran Tuan Anh and Russian Deputy Minister of Energy Sentyurin Yuri Petrovich, the documents reflect Vietnam and Russia’s policy of giving priority to developing bilateral cooperation on oil and gas energy.