[Dec. 19, 2011] Daily gas consumption in the Qinghai provincial capital of Xining is forecast to peak at 5.5 million cubic meters (Mmcm) this winter, according to a Dec. 16 newsletter released by local gas dist...
[Dec. 16, 2011] China has started pumping oil into new reserve tanks in its landlocked northwest since September, in a move that may have swelled the country's crude imports to a peak in November and is likely ...
[Dec. 14, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp.’s (CNPC) Sulige Gasfield in the Ordos Basin is producing more than 46 million cubic meters of natural gas per day (MMcm/d), significantly more than the daily output expected at this stage of the project, CNPC announced on Th
[Dec. 14, 2011] Xinjiang Guanghui Industry Co. Ltd. (Xinjiang Guianghui) has put the first phase of a coal chemical-LNG facility in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s Kumul Prefecture into operation, state-run Shanghai Securities News reported Friday.
[Dec. 13, 2011] The Akemo gas field, owned and operated by China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), has raised its natural gas processing capacity by more than 40 percent since completing a recent expansion, the state-run Xinjiang Daily reported on Saturday.
[Nov. 22, 2011] CNPC, the parent of PetroChina Co (NYSE: PTR, SHA: 601857, HKG: 0857), said it would invest ¥8.33 billion expanding the annual capacity of its refinery in Karamay, Xinjiang to six to seven million tons of heavy oil and three to four million tons of th
[Nov. 11, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has begun testing the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture section of its Southwestern Gansu Gas Pipeline (SGGP) in Gansu Province, the Linxia municipal government announced Nov. 10.
[Oct. 27, 2011] The five states of southern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have upped purchases of natural gas from the Tarim Oilfield to meet rising demand, the oilfield’s operator PetroChina Tarim Oilfield Co. (PetroChina Tarim) disclosed Oct. 26.
[Oct. 24, 2011] Enviro Energy International Holdings (1102) plans to start commercial production at its Xinjiang natural gas project in the first half of next year.The firm also plans to start production at its newly discovered shale gas reserve, also in Xinjiang, in 201
[Oct. 9, 2011] China’s Kela-2 Gas Field, the major gas producer for the country’s west-east gas pipeline, has posted a total output exceeding 60 billion cubic meters of natural gas as of Thursday since it began operation in 2004.The amount was equivalent to 63.6 percent
[Sept. 23, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has postponed an across-the-board 10 percent natural gas price hike in west China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the Ningxia arm of the National Development and Reform Commission (Ningxia NDRC) announced Sept. 23.
[Sept. 23, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has postponed an across-the-board 10 percent natural gas price hike in west China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the Ningxia arm of the National Development and Reform Commission (Ningxia NDRC) announced Sept. 23.
[Sept. 23, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) will start operating a new 100,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) crude oil unit in its Ningxia refinery from late October, China Petroleum Daily, a company newspaper, reported on Friday.The parent of PetroChina had previ
[Sept. 19, 2011] State-owned power company China Power Investment Corp. (CPI ) began construction of a coal-to-gas (CTG) project in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in early September, CPI announced Sept 15.
[Sept. 13, 2011] Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed Brightoil Petroleum Holdings Ltd. (Brightoil) has awarded surveying and construction contracts to China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) unit CNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Co. Ltd (CNPC Drilling) regarding the developm
[Aug. 19, 2011] The Sebei Gasfield, located in Qinghai Province’s Chaidamu Basin, has boosted local methanol production capacity to one million tons annually, the Qinghai government said Aug. 18.
[Aug. 18, 2011] PetroChina Co. Ltd. (PetroChina), the listed arm of China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), plans to put a liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing plant in Qinghai Province into operation by October this year, state media reported Aug. 16.
[Aug. 17, 2011] Yining City in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has started receiving natural gas after linking to the 2nd West East Pipeline (WEP II), a local gas distributor told Interfax Aug. 16.
[Aug. 17, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), China’s largest oil and gas producer, is expected to deploy RMB 300 billion ($46.93 billion) to develop oil and gas reserves in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region over the next 10 years, state media reported Aug. 16.&n
[Aug. 12, 2011] On August 10, the Chinese Economic and Information Commission stated that construction is to commence in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region on a new crude oil pipeline which will be the longest such pipeline in northwestern China. Preparatory work
[Aug. 12, 2011] China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) has submitted plans to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to build a coal-based synthetic natural gas (SNG) pipeline from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to Zhejiang Province, the 21s
[Aug. 9, 2011] Mardan Mehmet never hesitates to show how happy he is."I earn 5,000 yuan ($777) a month, have a car, and can still support my two younger sisters in their studies," says Mehmet, a Uygur man working at a huge project to produce substitute natural
[Aug. 4, 2011] Vehicles are burnt to ruins after being engulfed by fire caused by a truck’s collision into the back of an oil tanker on a bridge in Yulin, Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, August 2, 2011. Five people were hurt but no deaths were reported in the accide
[Aug. 1, 2011] PetroChina Lanzhou Petrochemical is expected to raise its LPG supply from the present 200mt per day to 500mt per day after it wraps up turnaround in end July, a source with the refinery said. The supply may go back to normal level at the end of this month
[Jul. 28, 2011] PetroChina, China’s biggest oil producer, will further delay the startup of a planned maintenance of its 200,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Dushanzi refinery by two to three weeks to late Aug, Reuters reported.PetroChina had initially planned to shut down
[Apr. 14, 2011] Northwestern China’s largest steel maker, Gansu Jiuquan Iron & Steel Group, has signed an agreement with the Zhangye municipal government to work on a coal-to-gas project soon in Zhangye city in Gansu province, the Gansu government said Tuesday.
[Mar. 17, 2011] Kunlun Energy’s (00135.HK) Qinghai subsidiary has begun construction of a natural gas plant in Golmud city in Northwest China’s Qinghai province, according to a report by Chin a Oil News, a CNPC-run newspaper.
[Jan. 12, 2011] Shanghai－－Methanol gasoline might become available from petrol stations underlying PetroChina and Yanchang & Shell Petroleum in Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province in the near term, C1’s survey foundA source with Yanchang Zhongli New Energy, a major methanol gasoline producer in Shaanxi, told C1 that the company was now in negotiation with PetroChina and Yanchang & Shell Petroleum on providing the two with methanol gasoline.
[Jan. 7, 2011] BEIJING - China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec) produced a record 7 million tons or 140,000 barrels per day of crude oil in its northwest oilfield last year, 6.1 percent more than in 2009.Natural gas production totaled 1.45 billion cubic metres, up 11.5 percent from 2009, according to a report by the China Petrochemical News, a newspaper run by parent China Petrochemical Corp.
[Jan. 6, 2011] BEIJING - China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec) produced a record 7 million tons or 140,000 barrels per day of crude oil in its northwest oilfield last year, 6.1 percent more than in 2009.Natural gas production totaled 1.45 billion cubic metres, up 11.5 percent from 2009, according to a report by the China Petrochemical News, a newspaper run by parent China Petrochemical Corp.
[Jan. 5, 2011] Shanghai－－PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical plans to refine 840,000mt of crude in January, 17% higher than the previous month, a refinery source told C1.The refinery would operate at full capacity during 2011 except July and August, because it would go into 45-day maintenance from July, the source added.
[Jan. 4, 2011] It is reported that an accident of harmful gas poisoning occurred in Tianyuan Manganese which located in Zhongning County of Zhongwei City of Ningxia Province on the night of December 23rd.Reports said that 24 workers were involved in the accident and 3 have dead.
[Jan. 4, 2011] BEIJING - The third natural gas pipeline from Northwestern China’s Shaanxi province to Beijing was completed Friday and will be put into use on Jan 4, according to an official of the State-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC).Zhao Yujian, head of the Pipeline Bureau of the CNPC, said at the new pipeline’s completion ceremony that the 896-km-long pipeline can pump as much as 15 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually.
[Dec. 23, 2010] BEIJING -- The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planner, said in a statement on its website that it has approved the third Shaanxi-Beijing natural gas pipeline.According to the statement, NDRC gave its nod to the 1,026km-long pipeline project in early December 2010.
[Dec. 23, 2010] ZHONGNING, Ningxia -- At least three people were killed and 21 others poisoned in a chemical plant supposedly by toxic gas in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Thursday, local authorities said.Many people showed symptoms of being poisoned by unconfirmed toxic gas in Tianyuan Manganese Corp. in Zhongning County of Zhongwei City at about 0:40 a.m. Thursday, government officials and police told Xinhua.
[Dec. 23, 2010] Yihua Chemical Industry Co Ltd, Asia’s largest fertilizer producer, will invest 33 billion yuan ($5 billion) in a coal chemical project in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region during the next five years, said a senior company executive.
[Dec. 22, 2010] Shanghai －－ PetroChina has recently brought on stream two pipelines transmitting crude from its Changqing Oilfield in Northwest China, according to news released on the website of the oil giant.The 324.76-km Shikong-Lanzhou Crude Pipeline starts from Shikong County in Ningxia region and ends in a commercial storage in Lanzhou City in Gansu Province; the 123-km Hui’anpu-Yinchuan Crude Pipeline links Ningxia’s Hui’anpu County and Ningxia Petrochemical, the news said.
[Dec. 22, 2010] Hubei Yihua Chemical Industry Co Ltd, Asia’s largest fertilizer producer, will invest 33 billion yuan ($5 billion) in a coal chemical project in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region during the next five years, said a senior company executive.
[Dec. 22, 2010] Five workers were killed and two were injured after they inhaled poisonous gas at a fertilizer plant in northwest China’s Gansu Province Monday, the local government said, correcting an earlier emergency response office report that said the workers were electrocuted.
[Dec. 20, 2010] HOUSTON – The ZJS-02 well in the downthrown block of the 175,000-acre Zijinshan gas asset in China’s Ordos basin intersected 68 bcf of gas in place, according to consulting engineers and in-house estimates, said Camac Energy Inc., Hartsdale, NY.
[Dec. 16, 2010] Shanghai－－More than ten petrol stations in Baoji City in Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province started to sell methanol gasoline on Dec 15, which meant Shaanxi began to popularize the use of such fuel, C1 learned from market sources.Within one week, Xi’an and Hanzhong cities in Shaanxi will follow suit.
[Dec. 16, 2010] Shanghai－－Yan’an Refinery resumed operations of a 1.4-mil-mt/yr hydrocracker and a 1.2-mil-mt/yr reformer on Dec 13, two days ahead of plan, a refinery source told C1."With the two units on-stream, we will soon resume normal oil product output," said the source.
[Dec. 15, 2010] It is reported that China Petrochemical Corporation signed a cooperation agreement with the Shaanxi provincial government in Beijing on December 11.According to the agreement, both parties will strengthen cooperation in six areas including accelerating exploration and development of oil and natural gas in the Zhenba block in the southern part of Shaanxi province during the period of the 12th Five Year Plan.
[Dec. 10, 2010] China National Petroleum Corp, the country’s largest integrated oil and gas enterprise, on Tuesday said in an internal briefing that its subsidiary PetroChina Co<601857><0857><PTR> has increased the annual crude oil output of its oil field in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region by 1.39 million tons, or 27,900 barrels per day, sources reported.
[Dec. 9, 2010] PetroChina Xinjiang oilfield had added 1.39 million tonnes to its annual crude oil production capacity by November 29, 2010, almost double the figure a year earlier, the parent CNPC said in a statement posted on its website on Dec 7.
[Dec. 8, 2010] Xi’an, China /-Asia/ -- China Natural Gas, Inc. ("China Natural Gas" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: CHNG), a leading provider of compressed natural gas ("CNG") for vehicular fuel and pipeline natural gas for industrial, commercial and residential use in Xi’an, China, today announced that it signed a natural gas supply agreement on November 25, 2010 with a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation ("CNPC") in Xi’an, China.
[Dec. 7, 2010] Dec. 6, 2010 (China Knowledge) - China National Chemical Engineering Co Ltd<601117>, which is mainly engaged in engineering contracting, surveying, design and related services, announced Friday that one of its subsidiaries recently won an order worth RMB 1.6 billion in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
[Dec. 7, 2010] China Knowledge citing Mr Ran Xinquan general manager of the oilfield Changqing Oilfield which is the second largest oilfield by yield and is owned by PetroChina Co Ltd as saying that the company may see its natural gas output rise 5.5%YoY to 20 billion cubic meters in 2010.
[Dec. 7, 2010] PetroChina plans to start building the first phase of natural gas storage depot in Hutubi at northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 2011 for easing local natural gas shortage, Xinhua reported.
[Dec. 6, 2010] BEIJING -- PetroChina (PTR.NYSE; 00857.HK; 601857.S H) plans to start building the first phase of natural gas storage depo t in Hutubi at northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 2 011 for easing local natural gas shortage.
[Dec. 6, 2010] China Natural Gas Inc, announced that it signed a natural gas supply agreement on November 25th 2010 with a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation at Xi’an in China, according to the report of steelguru.The new supply agreement between CNPC Changqing Oil Field Branch Company and Jingbian LNG Company a wholly owned subsidiary of China Natural Gas will provide the Company with a supply of natural gas for its LNG plant in Jingbian County, Shaanxi Province.
[Dec. 2, 2010] Natural gas output at PetroChina’s Changqing oilfield will rise 5.5 percent year on year to 20 billion cubic meters in 2010, a senior company official said Wednesday.Ran Xinquan, general manager of the Changqing oilfield, said his company has carried his company has carried out large-scale exploitation of its natural gas fields in the Erdos Basin in northwest China.
[Nov. 29, 2010] Xinjiang is planning an expensive pipeline transporting natural gas converted from coal to eastern China’s Zhejiang province, China Coal Times reported, citing local officials as said.Oil company Sinopec is expected to invest in the piping network of at least 4000km long, according to preliminary agreements between Sinopec and the regional governments.
[Nov. 29, 2010] Gas supply to the northern part of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is expected to rise to a maximum of 5 million cubic meters a day, almost five times the current daily average of 1.1 million cubic meters, which will alleviate shortages and meet robust winter demand, China National Petroleum Corp. said Monday.
[Nov. 29, 2010] China Business News citing an insider from CNPC said China National Petroleum Corporation plans to complete 20.6 billion cubic meters of gas transmission up by 10%YoY through the number one line of the West-East Gas Pipeline.The informant estimates total capacity of the West-East Gas Pipeline will be 47 billion cubic meters to 50 billion cubic meters per year after the number two line is fully operational.
[Nov. 29, 2010] The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region may start piping synthetic natural gas (SNG) to Zhejiang Province, state media reported on Nov. 26.
[Nov. 24, 2010] The proven reserves of Qinghai’s Kunbei Oil Field recently passed the review of related departments in China. This marks that Kunbei Oil Field has currently become a large oil field with reserves totaling hundreds of millions of tons, including proven reserves as well as control and estimated reserves.
[Nov. 22, 2010] Yanchang Petroleum has acquired equity in seven semi-coke production companies in Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, reported China Chemical Industry News on Friday.
[Nov. 15, 2010] China’s diesel shortage has paralyzed traffic on a pivotal expressway in Northwest China, with trucks waiting in long lines to fill their fuel tanks.Truck driver Zhang Manku said he waited for eight hours on Thursday to fill up at a gas station in Ningqiang, a county in Shaanxi province close to Sichuan province.
[Nov. 11, 2010] PetroChina (PTR.NYSE; 00857.HK; 601857. SH) has found commercial oil flow in Mobei oilfield in west China’s Xi njiang, which are expected to bring additional oil reserve of about 10million metric tons, reported the parent CNPC on website on Monday.
[Nov. 8, 2010] Dalian Wepec is scheduled to export about 134,000mt of distillates in November, a refinery source said.The exports comprise 64,000mt of gasoline, 10,000mt of gasoil, 30,000mt of jet and 30,000mt of naphtha, revealed the source.The refinery plans to export
[Nov. 5, 2010] PetroChina, China’s largest oil and gas supplier, said early this week it has started production from two large gas fields in the Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, raising the basin’s gas output by 8%.Production from the Dabei block
[Oct. 29, 2010] PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical arranged to refine 700,000mt of crude in November, with daily throughput stable at 23,000mt compared with the previous month, according to a refinery source.
[Oct. 28, 2010] China natural gas Inc a leading provider of compressed natural gas for vehicular fuel and pipeline natural gas for industrial, commercial and residential use in Xi’an, announced that sales prices of both pipeline natural gas in Shaanxi Province and vehicular fuel in Xi’an have increased, according to a new notice from the Shaanxi Provincial Price Bureau and the Xi’an Municipal Pricing Bureau.
[Oct. 28, 2010] PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical defers Group II base oil outputs, as upgrading project of its base oil production facility which started from the second half of 2009 was uncompleted by now, revealed a company source.
[Oct. 27, 2010] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the country’s largest oil company, put a natural gas station into operation in Yushu County, Qinghai Province on Oct. 26, the company announced on the same day.
[Oct. 27, 2010] According to the news release of Petrochina, the management department in Gansu and Shaanxi provinces of West- East Gas Transmission Project conducted a production-operation preview and this preview was a main component of production operation of the eastern section of west2 gas pipeline project.
[Oct. 27, 2010] A liquefied gas station started operating Monday in Yushu county, northwest China’s Qinghai Province, six months after a devastating earthquake there.
[Oct. 26, 2010] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), China’s largest oil and gas producer, started construction of its fifth gas processing plant at the Sulige Gasfield in northwestern China’s Ordos Basin, the company said in a newsletter on Oct. 26.
[Oct. 25, 2010] Yan’an Refinery suspended selling gasoline by rail Friday as its pipelines were buried after a severe land collapse, a refinery source said.
[Oct. 22, 2010] The Third Shaanxi-to-Beijing natural gas pipeline is expected to enter operation at the end of October 2010, an official with the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Thursday.
[Oct. 22, 2010] China Natural Gas, Inc. ("China Natural Gas" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CHNG), a leading provider of compressed natural gas (CNG) for vehicular fuel and pipeline natural gas for industrial, commercial and residential use in Xi’an, China, today announced that sales prices of both pipeline natural gas in Shaanxi Province and vehicular fuel in Xi’an have increased, according to a new notice from the Shaanxi Provincial Price Bureau and the Xi’an Municipal Pricing Bureau.
[Oct. 19, 2010] China’s western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is planning a capacity upgrade to 10 million tonnes for each of its four petroleum refining bases in a bid to craft itself into a global edging regional petroleum base in coming few years.
[Oct. 18, 2010] Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Co Ltd, China’s fourth largest oil company, last week signed a cooperative agreement with Dalian Municipal Government on building a mega petrochemical project, sources reported.Pursuant to the agreement.
[Oct. 15, 2010] It is reported that China National Petroleum Corporation discovered a new commercial oil flow in its Mobei oil field located at Gurbantunggut Desert in Xinjiang province.This discovery is expected to increase oil reserves in the range of 10 million tonnes
[Oct. 14, 2010] Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum plans to build a 20-mil-mt-yr oil refining and chemical complex in Dalian, Northeast China, C1 learned from a source with the company.
[Oct. 13, 2010] Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Co Ltd, China’s fourth largest oil company, last week signed a cooperative agreement with Dalian Municipal Government on building a mega petrochemical project, sources reported.
[Oct. 13, 2010] China National Petroleum Corp, the country’s largest integrated oil and gas enterprise, on Monday said in an internal briefing that its subsidiary PetroChina Co<601857><0857> has discovered large oil reserves in Mobei Oil Field in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, sources reported.
[Oct. 13, 2010] As the next decade unravels, China’s National Petroleum Corp. will develop the province of Xinjiang into the nation’s biggest oil and gas production base. The corporation is the emerging nation’s most prolific state-owned fuel supplier. The province will also provide storage space for the nation’s massive oil and gas reserves, as well as an engineering support foundation and a crucial pathway for imports coming from the country’s international oil and gas partners.
Qinghai capital's daily gas consumption could reach 5.5 Mmcm this winter
