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Onshore oil production to reach 150 mln tons
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-09-30 09:00
China's oil and gas reserves will grow steadily in the coming 20 years and
the crude production will reach 150 million tons in 2010, a senior official from
PetroChina said here Thursday.
China will have a bright prospect of onshore oil development, through the
efforts of enhanced exploration and rational development, said Jia Chengzao,
chief geologist of PetroChina.
"In the east China, oil exploration will be enhanced to find more reserves,
build new productivity and ensure that the early oil production maintained
around 100 million tons," Jia told delegates attending China's Country
Presentation during the ongoing 18th World Petroleum Congress.
He further noted that in the west onshore China, the government is to further
the exploration efforts in frontier areas and basins, target to find
large-medium oil and gas fields and realize the strategic resource backup and
the rapid increase of production.
Jia also forecast China's crude onshore production will reach 170 million
tons in 2020.
According to the official, by the end of 2004, China's remaining onshore
recoverable oil resource is 13 billion tons and the onshore crude production
reaches 143 million tons.
PetroChina is a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation, China's
largest oil producer.
Over 3,500 petroleum executives, 250 students and 400 journalists worldwide
are gathering at Johannesburg to attend the 18th World Petroleum Congress, the
first time the World Petroleum Council (WPC) holds its tri-annual event on the
African continent in 72-year history.
Founded in London in 1933, the WPC is an international, unbiased,
non-political organization that provides a forum for discussing world issues
facing the oil and gas industry. It is dedicated to scientific advances in the
oil and gas industries, technology transfer and to promote the management of the
world's petroleum resources for the benefit of mankind.
The WPC's 62 member countries represent over 90 percent of the world's major
oil producing and consuming nations in the world.
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