The future of the oil and gas industry depends on the successful application of the 4.0 Technology Revolution

Dr. Ngo Thuong San - Chairman of Vietnam Oil and Gas Association - said that the success and efficiency of the Vietnam Oil and Gas industry in the future depends on the extent of expansion and application of components of the Technology Revolution. 4.0. The goal of implementing technology solutions, organizing and managing production and business, creating new products with high added value, strong competitiveness ... New Energy Magazine reporter has an interview Interview meeting with Dr. Ngo Thuong San on this issue.

Reporter: Can you tell us some highlights of science - technology in the process of formation and development of the oil and gas industry?

Dr. Ngo Thuong San: The history of the development of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Industry has proven that the motivation and results brought from the oil and gas industry are based on the efficiency of acquiring and applying innovative solutions and achievements of advanced science and technology in the world, leaving important marks that increase the reputation of the Vietnam Oil and Gas industry in the regional and international markets.

The peak of the science and technology effect that must be recognized first after 13 years of establishment of the General Department of Petroleum is the discovery of a non-traditional oil layer, unprecedented in oil and gas science and building a system of methods to exploit effectively. Special oil layer fruits - the oil layer in the fractured foundation rock in Bach Ho oil field with super reserves, particularly in the foundation layer has more than 4 billion barrels and high-speed exploitation with peak output of over 13 million tons / year. The name of Bach Ho field and "oil layer in fractured granite foundation" that entered the world oil and gas documents is an important contribution to oil and gas science, with pervasive properties to discover more high reserves. another in Cuu Long basin. This achievement is also recognized as a driving force of economic growth to initiate the country's renewal period.

Product development research at PVCFC.

Reporter: In your opinion, in the new stage of development, what is the role of science and technology in the petroleum industry?

Dr. Ngo Thuong San: Vietnam's oil and gas industry needs to have new breakthroughs in science and technology, otherwise it will be difficult to avoid lag, especially under the pressure of integration that requires competition in terms of capacity, intelligence, and creative, before the fluctuations of the world oil and gas economy in a bad direction after the double impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the sharp drop in oil prices.

Production and business activities of Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) are currently facing many difficulties and challenges due to the unpredictable fluctuations of crude oil prices, which have negative impacts on revenue and profit for many years and it is difficult to find balance soon; Traditional oil and gas fields, after a long time of exploitation, have declined in reserves and output, it is necessary to invest fully in exploiting and deploying exploration and exploitation in the deep and offshore waters of the continental shelf with the modern technology; the cost of exploration and exploitation of a ton of oil and gas is increasingly high, with great risks, but it is required to maintain sustainable development when the potential is weak, security and political instability in the South China Sea, Domestic protection by countries in the region.

Central technology truss cluster No. 2 of Bach Ho mining.

Once there are no new resources, diversified uses of oil and gas that can replace oil and gas, the immediate and medium-term tasks of Petrovietnam and the oil and gas exploration, exploitation and processing industry must focus on investment and development more modern technological solutions and processes to increase the success coefficient of wells of appraisal and exploitation, increase the oil recovery coefficient, optimize the exploitation of small and non-traditional fields, reduce project costs and save saving resources, increasing efficiency and using value of oil and gas products, minimizing the risk of adversely affecting the environment.

The important and urgent shift that Petrovietnam has faced is the shift in the structure of hydrocarbon-based energy from oil to gas. That is the actual requirement stemming from the potential of natural gas resources, rapidly reducing oil production. Natural gas is considered as clean energy, efficient for electricity and a raw material source for petrochemicals, with less greenhouse gas emissions. With such advantages, natural gas will inevitably be a source of raw materials / energy in the future to gradually replace oil and coal.

Therefore, Petrovietnam needs to adjust the gas industry development strategy and develop an appropriate gas industry master plan for each stage of development, including technology for efficient exploitation of coal seams / fields with high CO2 content. use to create added value, build pipeline networks, seaports and gas industrial parks in accordance with regional economic planning, national power network diagram, and develop gas and product market strategies. gas with vision combined with LNG entry. LNG liquefied gas is expected to have a rapid increase in consumption.

Potential renewable energy types that the petroleum industry can prioritize to consider developing based on its capacity are wind energy and hydrogen energy

The future of the oil and gas industry depends on the successful application of the 4.0 Technology Revolution.

Natural gas is a source of energy, future energy

Reporter: In your opinion, what are the barriers to science and technology and how can science and technology become a driving force for the development of the petroleum industry?

Dr. Ngo Thuong San: Although there are certain contributions to economic development, we can also see the difficulties, problems and irrationalities in the construction and development of science and technology in the mechanism. operation, financial mechanism, legal framework, State management of state economic groups in general, not only oil and gas, such as:

Policies to develop and apply advanced science and technology to production and business have not created a breakthrough, not really a driving force to promote innovation, technological innovation, and improvement of labor productivity, especially, have not promoted intellectual capacity in the intellectual team.

Relationships between science and technology research institutes, institutions and applications in Petrovietnam's member units have not had mutual support, have not formed a stratification of objectives, scale, qualifications and connection mid-short, medium-term, long-term.

The relationship between research and technology application remains unreasonable, and technology application and transfer activities are still limited. Many topics are not close to reality, State management of science and technology still has many inadequacies, inadequate policy mechanisms ....

In order for Vietnam's oil and gas industry to continue to develop stably to be commensurate with a leading State economic group, in accordance with its potential and not lagging behind regional oil and gas groups, a number of attention should be paid to problem about.

BIENDONG POC operates and exploits in deep-shore waters.

Research on restructuring the science and technology system in Petrovietnam on objectives, tasks and operating mechanism, management, creating the connection, more effective in the integrated use of resources, technology development and products. intellectual value competitiveness.

In the field of science and technology, in parallel with paying attention to the efficiency of using active technology, it is necessary to increase the content of technology innovation, step by step switch to research and development of smart technology to create valuable products higher increase, which means moving from R + R & D to RD&P smart (research, development and smart production).

Regarding State management, it is necessary to study to restructure more effective science and technology organizational development models in economic groups, including Petrovietnam, to have an open mechanism to integrate investment resources into research to develop science and technology, so that S&T really is the driving force for development.

Reporter: Thank you very much!

Mai Phương (Thực hiện)