China Sees Strong Shale Gas Output Growth During Jan-Jul
China produced 5.01bn m3 shale gas during January-July period compared with only 600mn m³ during the same period last year, National Bureau of Statistics said on September 1. Country’s total production of unconventional natural gas during the first seven months of 2016 was 9.64bn m³.
Most of the shale gas during the period came from Sinopec’s Fuling shale gas field. It produced 3.054bn m³ of gas during the first seven months of the year, Sinopec announced last month.
Fuling shale gas field (Credit: Sinopec)
Fuling shale gas field’s second phase is progressing well and is expected to be completed in 2017 taking the annual production capacity to 10bn m³. The first phase of Fuling shale gas field in Chongqing went into production last year. Earlier this year, Sinopec announced it is aiming to produce 10bn m³/yr of shale gas by 2020 from the field.
Shardul Sharma