Vietnam: Licensing requirements for groundwater drilling (latest)

According to Decree No. 136/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, an institutional or individual entity operating groundwater drilling must fully meet the following requirements:

- Obtain a decision on establishment of an institutional entity from a competent authority, or one of the following qualifications, such as business registration certificate, business and tax registration certificate, enterprise registration certificate as required of such institutional entity, or household business registration certificate as required of an individual group or a family household granted by a competent authority.

-The person appointed as the head of an institutional entity (Director or General Director), or the person assuming prime responsibility for technical issues of an institutional or individual entity (hereinafter referred to as “technical responsible person”) must meet the following requirements:

Accredited small-scale groundwater drilling:

+ Complete at least a technical or vocational associate degree in geological disciplines (including exploration geology, hydrogeology, engineering geology and geotechnical engineering) or drilling practices, or graduate from a drilling worker’s degree at the level 3/7 or at least equivalent; get directly involved in designing, reporting or drilling a minimum of 03 (three) groundwater drilling projects.

+ Unless the above-mentioned degrees or certificates are presented, (s)he is required to have been directly involved in a minimum of 05 (five) groundwater drilling works.

Accredited medium-scale groundwater drilling:

Complete at least a technical or vocational associate degree in geological disciplines (including exploration geology, hydrogeology, engineering geology and geotechnical engineering) or drilling practices; get directly involved in formulating exploration projects or reports, designing a system of abstraction wells, or take charge of a minimum of 03 (three) groundwater drilling works that each has their water flow of at least 200 m3/day-night.

Accredited large-scale groundwater drilling:

Complete at least a university degree in geological disciplines (including exploration geology, hydrogeology, engineering geology and geotechnical engineering) or drilling practices; get directly involved in formulating exploration projects or reports, designing a system of abstraction wells, or take charge of a minimum of 03 (three) groundwater drilling works that each has their water flow of at least 3,000m3/day-night.

View more details at Decree No. 136/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from October 05, 2018.

-Thao Uyen-

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