PetroVietnam produces first oil from Đại Hùng Phase 3
PetroVietnam produced first commercial oil from the Đại Hùng oilfield Phase 3 project in Nam Con Son basin 265 km south of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, Vietnam.
Phase 3 was launched in 2022 with a wellhead platform in 110 m of water in block 05.1Ab. First commercial oil flow was recorded on May 7 at a rate of 6,000 b/d. To date, Đại Hùng has produced nearly 75 million bbl of oil.
Nam Con Son basin lies adjacent to Cuu Long basin and covers about 90,000 sq km. The basin age ranges from Oligocene to Quaternary with sediment thickness of a maximum of 10 km.
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
