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On January 29 in Hanoi, PetroVietnam University (PVU) and Information and Communication Public Management Institute (ICI), Ministry of Information and Communications, officially signed the Memorandum of Understanding.
The MOU expresses the desire to maximize the capabilities of the two sides in the fields of training, scientific research, technology transfer and consulting on digital solutions and digital transformation to contribute to the realization of the target of National Digital Transformation Program, exploit the potential of facilities, human resources as well as experience of the two sides.

Signing Ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding between PVU and ICI
Besides, the two units will build and develop a globally innovative ecosystem. They will also accompany in research, consulting, training, coaching and connecting units in the oil and gas and energy industries, startups and businesses in Vietnam.
Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication, Mr. Phan Tam said that the signing of MOU would bind the two institutes. The capacity and capabilities of the two schools will be maximized in training in general and training in digital transformation in particular. It also contributes to the realization of the goals of the national digital transformation program such as developing the digital government, digital economy, digital society, and contributing to the formation of Vietnamese digital technology enterprises capable of reaching out to the world.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam speaks at the event
"The cooperation between ICI and PVU today is a long-term strategy for our development and integration in the digital transformation trend.", said Dr. Phan Ngoc Trung - Member of the Board of Directors of PVN. He also expressed the hope that right after the signing ceremony, the units are going to start working on concretizing cooperation contents, building resources, connecting networks and effectively deploying to get concrete results soon.
This event laid a solid foundation for the long-term sustainable cooperation between the two units, which is in accordance with the development trend in the context of the 4th industrial revolution as well as the current digital transformation era.
On Sunday morning of November 22nd, 2020, PVU Intake 9 freshmen and their teachers organized an outdoor activity called “Green picnic” in order to help students socialize, connect and raise awareness of environmental protection. The location was at Paradise Beach of Vung Tau City.

One of the most prominent activities of the picnic was picking up trash along the beach near the tourist area. In just 2 hours, students cleaned more than 500m of the beach and collected 100 bags of trash. That contributed to creating a green, clean and beautiful environment and at the same time raising tourists’ and the local people’s awareness of environmental protection.
The activity also helped these students to socialize and be connected. More importantly, it helped raise their awareness and responsibility to preserve and protect the environment through practical activities, continuing series of environmental activities that PVU students had participated in before, such as the project "Coastal Painting" at Phuoc Hai Fishing Village, the "Sunday CleanUp" event at Doi Nhai Beach, Vung Tau City.
In the late afternoon, all the students cleaned up the picnic sites and took great photos together. The picnic ended in joys and laughters.
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On November 29, in Ba Ria city, the 9th Student Cultural Festival took place to celebrate the 59th anniversary of the Traditional Day of Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (27/11/1961- 27/11/2020) with many meaningful, joyful, useful and practical activities and left many beautiful and emotional images.

The 9th Petroleum Culture Festival is jointly organized by Youth Union of PVMTC and Youth Union of PVU under the direction of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of PVN.
With an aim at improving the quality of education, promoting cultural, artistic and sports activities among students from PVMTC, PVU and other schools in the area, such as Ba Ria- Vung Tau College of Technology, Ba Ria-Vung Tau College of
Education, BR-VT Provincial Medical College, etc, the event was also an opportunity to create an exciting emulation movement for socializing and connecting students, promote the youthful spirit, and contribute to improving the effectiveness and practicality of youth union activities.
The festival attracted more than 800 students from the forementioned schools to participate in many exciting competitions such as football, volleyball, badminton, chess, table tennis. Besides, there was also a Teambuilding program on the theme of “Student Race" with many rousing team games such as Teamwork Spirit, Modern Fishing, High Speed Train, etc.
In the evening of the same day, there was a campfire program performed by students from all of the schools. There was an interesting campfire ceremony followed by music performances, and an awarding ceremony.
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Recently, Petro Vietnam University (PVU) and Petronas Institute of Technology, under Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) signed a cooperation agreement in training and scientific research. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Van Sy -Vice Principal of Petro Vietnam University introduced PVU’s strengths to the partner, also spoke up the importance of cooperation and granting scholarships to students.

For UTP, It was a pleasure to cooperate with PVU mainly focusing on oil and gas training, Prof. Mohd Shahir Liew- Deputy Director of Research & Innovation Institute expressed.
Both sides believed the signing cooperation is the good start for development in research and training; at the same time, both committed to actively promoting activities in order to make the provisions of the memorandum to be effectively, tightly, and stably done.
The memorandum content is aimed at two key audiences: the lecturers and students. Specifically, the two universities will exchange lecturers and students back and forth, grant scholarships to students, cooperate in research and publication.
With practical content of the signing agreement, the cooperation program has opened up doors for opportunities of exchanging, enhancing academic improvements between two universities, especially in promoting each university’s own strengths.
On two days of 27 and 28/10/2016 at Vung Tau City, The 23rd Regional Symposium on Chemical Engineering (RSCE) was held by Faculty of Chemical Engineering - Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Petro Vietnam University, under Petrovietnam (PVN)

Mr. Le Manh Hung - Deputy General Director of Vietnam Oil and Gas Group speaks at the Conference as a Platinum Sponsor
RSCE is an annual scientific conference in the Asia. The 2016 RSCE was co-organized by HCMC University of Technology, Petro Vietnam University in conjunction with experts, scientists from the area such as Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia,... and sponsored by Institute of Chemical Engineering (IchemE), Asia-Pacific Corporate of Chemical Engineering (APCChE) and Japan Chemical Engineering Association.
The theme of RSCE 2016 is “Innovation in Chemical Engineering towards academic, education and industrial linkage”. This is a forum for researchers and industrialists to exchange information, introduce new developments, discuss the advanced techniques as well as provide an overview of the processes, global technology and development trends.

The 23rd RSCE had 180 reports and 370 attendants, of which was 142 specialists from the area (accounting for almost 40%)
Speaking at the symposium, on behalf of the co-organizer- Petro Vietnam University as The platinum sponsor, Deputy General Director of Petrovietnam Le Manh Hung affirmed: “Science and Technology play a crucial role in the development of each country, economic groups,… Petrovietnam identified science and technology development as one of three breakthrough solutions to improve productivity and product quality, making an important contribution to the Group's sustainable development.”
In recent years, thank to science and technology, Petrovietnam has speeded up the process of receiving and transferring modern technologies from the world's leading corporations in oil and gas processing technology like UOP, Merichem, ABB (USA), Axens (previously known as IFP of France), Snamprogetti (Italy), Haldor & Topsoe (Denmark)…

The success of RSCE 2016 is one of the important steps to affirm PVU's position as compared to domestic and regional universities.
On 28/09, PetroVietnam Exploration Production Corporation (PVEP) granted scholarships to PVU at the 3rd course graduation ceremony and Opening ceremony of the new school year 2018-2019 of PetroVietnam University (PVU).
On behalf of the Corporation's leaders, PVEP Deputy General Director Hoang Ngoc Trung awarded a grant to PVU's representative with the amount of VND 100 million. This money will be directly contributed to the Scholarship Fund, the University's Student Development Fund, and sponsored some of PVU’s activities.

Deputy General Director Hoang Ngoc Trung awarded scholarships to PVU
Through this event, PVEP's leaders wish to create a spirit and motivation to motivate the university's students to strive for the new school year's tasks, develop young human resources, and foster talents for the oil and gas industry in the near future; hence, providing high-quality human resources for PVEP as well as its subsidiaries.
On 18/1/2021, in Ba Ria city, PetroVietnam University (PVU) and iBosses Vietnam Joint Stock Company held a signing ceremony of a memorandum “Cooperation in researching, consulting, training on digital solutions and Granting scholarships to PVU students”.

Dr. Phan Minh Quoc Binh - Chairman of PVU and Expert Nguyen Huu Thai Hoa - General Director of iBosses Vietnam signed the Memorandum of Understanding
At the ceremony, Dr. Phan Minh Quoc Binh - Principal of the University introduced about the facilities, the training professions at the school as well as the international cooperation programs with prestigious schools and centers having strengths in the field of oil and gas over the world. Digital transformation and energy transfer are the orientations of the whole Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam), not only PVU’s, Dr. Phan Minh Quoc Binh emphasized. The signing ceremony of a memorandum on "Cooperation in researching, consulting and training on digital solutions" will mark an important event of PVU in 2021, a premise in the new development orientation of the University in the years to come.
The signing ceremony will build trust, habits for students to understand about iBosses Vietnam with valuable scholarships and lecturers to learn about start-up mindset and digital transformation, Dr. Phan Quoc Binh stressed.

The cooperation contents between PVU and iBosses Vietnam specifically are: Working together to build a network of domestic and foreign experts and for the purpose of consulting and training "digital leaders" in the oil, gas and energy industry, entrepreneurs, small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Digital Hub (Digital Technology Center) is the central point for storing data and transferring digital content to PVU and iBosses' clients/customers in the South, affirming the branding positions of PVU and iBosses in the current digital economy and technology revolution 4.0...

Expert Nguyen Huu Thai Hoa - General Director of iBosses Vietnam spoke at the ceremony
At the ceremony, the delegates witnessed the signing ceremony of the memorandum of cooperation agreement between PVU and iBosses Vietnam, and the representative of iBosses Vietnam granted 100 scholarships "Digital Leader - The Road to Success” to PVU students.
Mr Tang Ngoc Truong An highly appreciated the successful cooperation relationship between iBosses Vietnam and PVU in the past time and hoped that two sides will accompany and promote mutually beneficial developments with the memorandum “Cooperation in researching, consulting, training on digital solutions” in the future.

Expert Nguyen Huu Thai Hoa - General Director of iBosses Vietnam awarded scholarships to PVU's student representatives
On behalf of staff, Principal Phan Minh Quoc Binh thanked iBosses Vietnam for supporting and accompanying PVU, giving wings and realizing PVU's strategy in 2021. After the signing ceremony, the delegates visited the facilities, the system of research, teaching and learning rooms at PVU.
Lately, the signing ceremony of cooperation agreement and granting scholarships between PetroVietnam Exploration Production Corporation (PVEP) and PetroVietnam University has taken place in the city of Ba Ria, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.
This event is within the framework of the program to announce the decision, award the certificate of accreditation of educational institutions and the graduation ceremony, award master and engineering degrees; Open the new school year 2020-2021 of PVU.

PVEP Deputy General Director Nguyen Thien Bao and PVU President Phan Minh Quoc Binh signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement
Deputy General Director of PVEP- Nguyen Thien Bao and PVU’s Principal- Phan Minh Quoc Binh signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement in the fields of training, human resource development, scientific research, technology transfer, union activities and other activities such as education sponsorship, career day...
Besides, on behalf of PVEP, Deputy General Director Nguyen Thien Bao awarded a grant with the amount of 100 million VND for the Student Development Fund to encourage and motivate the spirit of learning, as well as develop young human resources and foster talents for the Oil and Gas industry.
Since its establishment, with the orientation of sustainable development, together with ensuring the excellent completion of production and business tasks, PVEP always upholds the sense of social responsibility, especially the sponsorship, investment in training and education. Social security activities such as building schools, granting scholarships... are created and completed as a task in The Corporation’s annual action plans.
The signing ceremony of cooperation agreement between PVEP and PVU; granting scholarships to the Student Development Fund are once again PVEP’s strong commitment to go together with seeding, developing high-quality human resources for the country in general and in the Oil and Gas industry in particular.
From 19-20/2010 at PetroVietnam University (PVU), the 5th national conference “Corrosion and Protection of metals for energy development” was co-organized by Vietnam Association of Corrosion Science and Technology and Metal Protection and PVU.

The conference attracted the participation of scientists from the UK, Japan and Korea
Reportedly, the organizers had received 80 articles by researchers, scientists at home and abroad (England, Japan, Korea) from different fields such as petroleum, chemical, materials and heavy industries...Especially, there were 39 outstanding articles chosen to be published in the Journal of Science and Technology, under Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
The discussed topics were Corrosion in the natural environments (corrosion in the atmosphere, corrosion in soil, sea water); Corrosion in industry (energy, oil and gas, construction...); Technology of electrochemical protection and corrosion inhibition;
Protective coatings (coatings, metal and alloy coatings, nano coatings...); Methods and equipment for corrosion and electrochemical research; electrochemistry, materials, and relating problems...

Overview of the conference Corrosion and Protection of Metals for Energy Development
In particular, the conference provided many new expertise contents such as coatings incorporating with nano materials, graphene, non-destructive corrosion assessment methods, online corrosion tracking systems, and especial manufacture and application of a wide range of protection materials and technologies.
Besides, the conference is also a chance for delegates to understand more about PVU with its profound mission of educating and training high quality human resources, incorporating Petro’s scientific research, education and training into practice. It was so proud of PVU’s lecturers and students’ learning achievement and scientific research despite its 7 years of establishment. 100% of the 1st course graduates had jobs, 70% of 2nd course graduates had jobs suitable with their majors before the graduation ceremony, highly valued by recruiters.

Delegates to the conference Corrosion and protection of metals for energy development
President of Vietnam Association of Corrosion Science and Technology and Metal Protection-Prof. D.Sc. Nguyen Duc Hung- highly appreciated PVU for coordinating to successfully organize the conference, with the support and active participation of units such as Tran Binh An's MDI Company, Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center, Institute of Tropical Endurance, Applied Research Center of the Vietnam Petroleum Institute..., along with faculties/departments of many universities across the country.
