Crude oil output in the January-September period fell 11.7 percent from a year earlier to 9.04 million tonnes, the General Statistics Office said in a report.

Vietnam's September crude oil exports totalled 375,000 tonnes, down 21.1 percent annually, the GSO said. This brought crude oil exports in the first nine months of this year to 2.97 million tonnes, plunging 45.2 percent from a year earlier.

The following table updates production figures for Vietnam's key energy items this month.

Units: Oil, coal and LPG in tonnes; natural gas in billion cubic metres; electricity in billion kilowatt hours.