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Shale gas production in China reached 143 million cubic meters
The National Energy Administration has announced that China's shale gas production has reached 143 million cubic meters. The country's largest refiner Sinopec Co has drilled nearly 30 pilot shale gas wells in the Fuling area of Chongqing municipality in southwest China, part of the Sichuan basin, one of the most promising geological zones for the unconventional fuel. Six of the wells are pumping about 1.06 million cubic meters of gas, or an average of nearly 180,000 cubic meters per well.
read more... 06/12/2013
Statoil confirms a massive pre-salt oil discovery offshore Brazil
The Norwegian oil company Statoil confirmed today that it has made a significant discovery offshore together with operator Repsol Sinopec and partner Petrobas.
read more... 27/02/2012
Repsol - new good quality oil discovery in Brazil
Repsol Sinopec Brazil, together with Petrobras and BG Group have made a new oil discovery, Abarè well, in the Carioca area situated in block BM –S-9. First tests have encountered in the carbonate reservoirs, at a depth of 4,830 meters, the presence of good quality oil with a gravity of 28 degrees API.
read more... 18/11/2011