Industry Code 0610 Crude petroleum extraction

Industry code 0610 Crude oil extraction, updated according to Decision 36/2025/QD-TTg. To learn more about the details of industry code 0610, please refer to this article by VN Law Firm!

1. What is a business industry code?

A business industry code is a series of numbers encoded to represent a specific business industry. Organizations and individuals, when preparing business registration documents, must use this business industry code table for registration. The 4-digit industry code (level 4) is the code used for business registration.

The Vietnam Standard Industrial Classification (VSIC) system, issued under Decision 36/2025/QD-TTg, has a hierarchical structure with 5 levels, from general to specific:

Example of industry code structure: Taking the food manufacturing industry as an example:

• Level 1: C (Manufacturing)
• Level 2: 10 (Food processing and manufacturing)
• Level 3: 107 (Manufacture of other food products)
• Level 4: 1075 (Manufacture of prepared meals and dishes)
• Level 5: 10751 (Manufacture of prepared meals and dishes from meat)

2. Regulations on Industry Code 0610 Crude oil extraction

This group includes: Activities of crude petroleum extraction.

This group also includes:

– Extraction of bituminous shale or oil shale or tar sands;

– Production of crude oil from oil shale or tar sands;

– Treatment activities to obtain crude oil such as decantation, settling, desalting, dehydration, stabilization, impurity removal, etc.

Exclusions:

– Support activities for oil and gas extraction on a fee or contract basis are classified under group 09100 (Support service activities for crude petroleum and natural gas extraction);

– Oil and gas well exploration services are classified under group 09100 (Support service activities for crude petroleum and natural gas extraction);

– Processing of crude oil products is classified under group 19200 (Manufacture of refined petroleum products; manufacture of fossil fuel products);

– Recovery of liquefied gas from oil and gas extraction is classified under group 19200 (Manufacture of refined petroleum products; manufacture of fossil fuel products);

– Transport of oil and natural gas via pipeline is classified under group 49400 (Pipeline transport);

– Extraction of condensed or liquefied gas is classified under group 06200 (Natural gas extraction).

3. Suggestions for recording Industry Code 0610 Crude oil extraction

– When registering a company establishment, notifying changes to business lines, or requesting a change to the Enterprise Registration Certificate, the enterprise founder or enterprise selects the fourth-level economic industry in the Vietnam Standard Industrial Classification system to record the business line in the enterprise registration dossier. The business registration authority will guide, cross-reference, and record the enterprise’s business lines in the National Business Registration Database.

– For conditional business lines stipulated in other legal documents, the business line shall be recorded according to the industry stipulated in those legal documents.

Suggestions for recording Industry Code 0610 Crude oil extraction:

Case 1: General

Case 2: Detailed

Case 3: Detailed

Note: Depending on the specific industry code and business line, as well as specific regulations in each locality, it may be necessary to provide details for the 4-digit industry code or commit to operating according to regulations.

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