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China's Xinjiang Province Produced 10bn Cu.M. Natural Gas in 2005

Posted on: Sunday, 29 January 2006, 09:00 CST

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)

Urumqi, 29 January: Northwest China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region pumped out 10bn cu.m. of natural gas in 2005, becoming an important supplier of clean energy in the nation.

According to the regional development and reform commission, the Tarim Oilfield Co under the China National Petroleum Corp, one of the country's two major onshore oil and gas producers, provided 24m cu.m. of natural gas every day for the west-to-east gas transportation programme.

Meanwhile, Yakera-Dalaoba oil/gas field in Tarim, developed by Sinopec, another major onshore oil/gas producer of the nation, started operation last September.

In early December, construction began on the Tarim Yingmaili gas- field group, so far the largest group of condensed gas fields in China, indicating the west-to-east gas transportation programme entered the second stage.

The gas-field group will take a total investment of 5.26bn yuan (648.6m US dollars) and is due to come on stream in December 2006.

Xinjiang plans to produce 15bn cu.m. of natural gas this year.

It is estimated that Xinjiang is blessed with natural gas resources of 10.3 trillion cu.m., or 34 per cent of the nation's total.

Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific

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