Speaking at the Asean Council on Petroleum (Ascope) conference in Ho Cho Minh City on Thursday, Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai told delegates that Vietnam faced becoming a net importer of energy by 2017, despite the country’s energy needs only being about one tenth of those in developed countries.
“The question is how do we overcome these challenges and problems? We don’t think that Vietnam can have individual solutions for these sorts of problems,” he said.
“We
