China on course for 10 bcm of shale output – official
China is hoping shale will provide a major boost to domestic gas output and is targeting 30 bcm/y of production by 2020 China is hoping shale will provide a major boost to domestic gas output and is targeting 30 bcm/y of production by 2020.
16 October 2017
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Sinopec’s Fuling shale gas field. (Sinopec)
China is on track to produce 10 billion cubic metres of shale gas this year, a senior government official said at a conference in Shanghai last week.
“Annual output can reach 10 bcm this year, which is equivalent to 10 mt of crude oil,” said Zhang Dawei, director of the Mineral Reserves Centre at the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), speaking at the annual Asia-Pacific Shale Gas Summit last week.
China produced 7.9 bcm of shale gas in 2016, up by 76.2% year on...
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