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March 21, 2024
CNOOC will do whatever it takes to protect the interests of the firm and its shareholders by legal means, he said at a briefing in Hong Kong. Guyana’s Stabroek block is expected to yield as much as 1.2 MMbpd by 2027, Chief Financial Officer Wang Xin told the event.
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March 18, 2024
The field has been tested to produce approximately 742 bopd from a single well. Through continued exploration, the proved in-place volume of the Qinhuangdao 27-3 oil field has reached 104 MMtoe.
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March 14, 2024
The new natural gas field, with an annual production rate of 2 Bcm of natural gas and 130,000 tons of sulfur, is set to provide more clean energy for Southwestern China and the regions along the Sichuan-East pipeline.
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March 08, 2024
The well was tested to produce an average of approximately 7,680 bpd and 0.52 MMcfgd. Through continued exploration, the proved in-place volume of Kaiping South oil field has reached 102 MMtoe.
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February 28, 2024
The Philippines is developing other energy sources as its key Malampaya gas field — which supplies a fifth of the country’s power requirements — nears depletion. PXP Energy Corp.’s exploration work on Reed Bank, another potential source for gas, has been suspended “because of the geopolitical situation,” Sales said.
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February 26, 2024
The discovery of an additional 40 MMcmg now brings Bozhong’s proven reserves to 200 MMcmg, making it the largest metamorphic rock oil field in the world.
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February 05, 2024
The main production facilities include 2 new central processing platforms and 2 new wellhead platforms. 118 development wells are planned, including 81 production wells and 37 water-injection wells. The project is expected to achieve a peak production of approximately 30,300 bopd in 2025.
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January 25, 2024
In 2024, net production target is 700 MMboe to 720 MMboe, of which production from China and overseas accounts for approximately 69% and 31%, respectively. The net production target is 780 MMboe to 800 MMboe in 2025, and 810 MMboe to 830 MMboe in 2026.
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January 23, 2024
The proven geological reserves amount to 133.012 Bcm as validated by the State Ministry of Natural Resources, which marks another integrated, ultra-deep and tight-sandstone gas field of over 100 Bcm in China.
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January 03, 2024
The project is expected to achieve a peak production of approximately 22,600 bopd in 2025.
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November 24, 2023
On Nov. 15, Sinopec struck sizeable oil and gas flows in the Yuejin 3-3XC well of its Project Deep Earth NO.1 in the Tarim basin, with a daily oil and gas flow of 200 tonnes in liquids and 50,000 cmg.
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November 16, 2023
(WO) — CNOOC Ltd. has initiated production at the Bozhong 19-6 condensate gas field development project in the central Bohai Sea.
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November 14, 2023
65 development wells are planned to be commissioned, including 42 production wells, 20 gas injection wells and 3 water source wells. It is expected to achieve a peak production of approximately 37,000 boed in 2024.
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November 06, 2023
The two sides also signed a long-term sales and purchase agreement (SPA) for the delivery of 3 MMtpa of LNG from the NFS project to Sinopec’s receiving terminals in China over a span of 27 years.
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October 26, 2023
The field is expected to achieve a peak oil production of approximately 9,300 bpd in 2024.
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September 28, 2023
With the majority of the world’s marine newbuild business located in China, and over 50% of Chinese shipyards located in a 200 km radius around Zhangjiagang, antifouling coatings are in high demand.
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August 24, 2023
Sinopec has received official certification for the 30.55 Bcm proven geological reserve of natural gas discovered in phase-I of its Bazhong gas field, a significant breakthrough of Sinopec's Project Deep Earth-Sichuan and Chongqing natural gas base.
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August 17, 2023
China’s biggest offshore driller reported 63.8 billion yuan ($8.76 billion) net income in the first six months, down 11% compared to 71.9 billion yuan a year earlier, it said in a filing. That follows a 6% decline in first-quarter earnings.
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July 21, 2023
China National Petroleum Corp. on Thursday began drilling the Shendi Chuanke 1 Well in Sichuan province, with a designed depth of 10,520 meters (6.5 miles). The project follows a similar sized well that CNPC began drilling in Xinjiang in May, described at the time as the deepest ever undertaken in China.
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June 12, 2023
With its industrial base and deepwater ambitions, CNOOC, one of China’s three main state-owned oil firms, is on a spending spree to develop the drilling technology currently dominated by western oil majors.
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June 06, 2023
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