BEIJING, Dec. 15 - A new natural-gas field in Northeast China has proven reserves of 100 billion cubic metres more than double this year's estimated production Daqing Oilfield said yesterday after a State expert team verified the find.
_i-(`5 OFyZY@B-C~ Last month, Wang Yupu, president of Daqing Oilfield Co Ltd, said a preliminary probe showed that the gas field has reserves of at least 100 billion cubic metres.
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The new gas field, named Qingshen, is located under Daqing oilfield in Heilongjiang Province, which produced 46.4 million tons of crude oil last year.
HoFFce7o C8J3^?7E It would be the country' fifth-biggest gas field after the Tarim, Qaidam, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia and Sichuan basins, according to industry experts.
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