Vietnam's sole oil refinery hoping to strike it rich with $85 million stake sale

Vietnam's sole oil refinery hoping to strike it rich with $85 million stake
sale

The operator of Vietnam's only oil refinery is planning to sell a 4 percent
stake this November, and expects to raise nearly VND1.93 trillion ($84.8
million) from the offering, Bloomberg reported.

Nguyen Hoai Giang, chairman of the Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical
Company, said in a recent report that it is waiting for government approval
to sell 132 million shares for VND14,600 each on November 7.

Another 49 percent stake in the Dung Quat Refinery will go on sale next
year, he said.

Dozens of companies have shown interest in the share sale, including Spain's
Repsol SA, World Petroleum Corporation in the U.S. and Vietnam's state-owned
fuel giant Petrolimex.

"The sale is open to both local and international investors, but we will
give priority to partners that operate in the same industry and can help us
to become bigger and more efficient," he said, as cited by Bloomberg.

Binh Son was valued at VND72.88 trillion ($3.2 billion) at the end of 2015,
with the state holding a 60 percent stake, according to a trade ministry
report released more than two months ago.

The company has projected revenue this year to reach VND62.4 trillion, down
17 percent from 2016 due to an expected drop in crude oil prices and
maintenance work.

Its refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai meets around a third of
Vietnam's demand for fuel and oil products, and has the capacity to process
6.5 million tons of crude oil a year.

The company is planning to expand to meet as much as 45 percent of domestic
demand by 2022.

Vietnam's government last week also announced plans to sell a 3.33 percent
stake in dairy giant Vinamilk this October, reducing the government state to
36 percent, Reuters reported.

The company put a 9 percent stake up for sale last year, but only 5.4
percent was purchased due to investment "limitations", said Nguyen Duc Chi,
chairman of the State Capital Investment Corporation, the government's
shareholding company.

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John Diecker
APT Consulting Group Co., Ltd.

www.aptthailand.com