Vietnam drilling for oil in Chinese-claimed territory: Report

‘Vietnam has started drilling for oil in disputed territory claimed by China in the South China Sea, a report says.
An oil drilling ship on contract to international firm Talisman-Vietnam has begun working off Vietnam’s southeast coast, the BBC quoted Ian Cross, an oil industry consultant at the Singapore-based Moyes & Co, as saying on Wednesday.
The ship Deepsea Metro I began drilling in an area of the sea about 400 kilometers off the Vietnamese coast on June 21, according to the report, which also speculated that the news about the drilling had not been officially publicized by Vietnam due to the “extreme sensitivity” of the matter.’
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