The Tarim oil field in northwest China's Xinjiang is expected to
produce 15.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas this year, up 40
percent year-on-year, company sources said.
The field had produced 15 billion cubic meters of gas as of Dec.
20, according to Tarim Oilfields Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of China
National Petroleum Corporation, the country's leading oil company.
The field produced 11 billion cubic meters of gas in 2006.
The Tarim field had injected 12 billion cubic meters of gas into
China's 4,200-kilometer east-west gas pipeline by Nov. 19, the
company said.
The company also said that it would supply 13.7 billion cubic
meters of gas to the pipeline for the full year, compared with 9.8
billion cubic meters last year.
CNPC Tarim Oilfields is a key participant in the pipeline, which
begins in Lunnan, southern Xinjiang, and ends in Baihe Town in east
China's Shanghai, with a designed annual capacity of 12 billion
cubic meters.
It supplies gas to about 200 million residents in various
eastern and northern provinces or regions.
Situated in southern Xinjiang, the 560,000 square-kilometer
Tarim Basin has proven reserves of 526 million tons of oil and 724
billion cubic meters of gas.
(Xinhua News Agency December 21, 2007)
