PetroVietnam urges boycott of China block offer

Out of bounds: PetroVietnam chief hotly disputes China block offer

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Bill Lehane ,

News Wires

 27 June 2012 11:17 GMT

PetroVietnam has reportedly urged foreign players not to bid on blocks in the South China Sea offered by China because they are in Vietnamese waters, in the latest twist in the long-running dispute over the area.

The row centres on nine offshore blocks offered for joint operating by China National Offshore Oil Corporation.

Chief executive Do Van Hau told journalists in Hanoi that "these blocks lie deeply on the continental shelf of Vietnam, overlapping Vietnam's oil and gas blocks 128 to 132 and oil and gas blocks 145 to 156", Reuters reported.

He further argued the blocks lay entirely within Vietnam's 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.

Hau blasted China’s open call for bids in the area as “an illegal activity of no value, which seriously violates the 1982 UN Convention of…

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