Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh directed the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) to restructure itself into a national industrial-energy group while addressing the firm's year-end review conference in Hanoi on December 28.

The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) has been able to master the world’s state-of-the-art technologies and now stands a chance to transform itself to become a national industry-energy group.