During the Fifth session of the Inter-governmental commission on trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation, First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Vietnam Le Danh Vinh said that the company will develop a five-year exploration programme for opening new oil and gas fields at Bukhara-Khiva oil and gas region of Uzbekistan by the end of 2011.

The programme was developed within the memorandum of understanding between Petrovietnam and Uzbekneftegaz, signed in April 2011.

The document envisages exploration of available geological-geophysical data on new deposits in the above-mentioned region.