TNK-BP Holding (TNBP.RS) may purchase several of BP PLC's (BP) Vietnam assets and participate in further projects in the country, the Anglo-Russian joint venture said Wednesday.

At its board meeting next month, TNK-BP will discuss the purchase of a share in the 06-1 gas fields, as well as buying a 50% stake in an oil refinery offered by PetroVietnam, the country's state-owned oil major, a TNK-BP spokesman said.

Separately, TNK-BP also said it would contest the ban excluding it from bidding on the Trebs and Titov oil fields, located in Russia's Arctic region.

-By Alexander Kolyandr and Ira Iosebashvili, Dow Jones Newswires; +7 495 232 9195; ira.iosebashvili@dowjones.com

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