Mr Manh set the task for the sector on August 20 while meeting with its officials, Party members, collectives and individuals who have excelled in the campaign “Studying and following late president Ho Chi Minh’s moral examples”.

He praised the sector for its outstanding performance, saying it has maintained stable production and profits, ensured social welfare and served as a tool for the state to regulate the macro economy while defending national sovereignty at sea.

He acknowledged the sector’s efforts to incorporate the campaign into its production tasks, resulting in role model campaigns and drawing the participation of all officials and workers.

The Party leader stressed the importance of the campaign and asked the sector’s officials and workers to study and follow the late president’s examples in by cleaning up corruption and other negative manifestations.

Dinh La Thang, Chairman of the group's Management Board, said that the group has so far extracted nearly 250 million tonnes of crude oil and more than 50 billion cubic metres of gas from 15 fields, including one overseas. It is putting the final touches to key State oil and gas projects, including the Ca Mau 1 & 2 and Nhon Trach 1 power plants.

Notably, he said, the Dung Quat Oil Refinery – the first of its kind in Vietnam – pumped its first commercial oil in February 2009 as scheduled. The group is now getting down to work on the Nghi Son and Southern petrochemical complexes.