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Iraq’s State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO) announced that Chinese oil companies were the largest buyers of Iraqi oil during the month of February. According to statistics published on SOMO’s official website, Chinese companies accounted for 7 of the 35 firms that purchased oil last month. SOMO’s data revealed …

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has recently met with representatives of around ten independent refiners to inquire about how much Russian crude oil the private refiners are importing and at what prices, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. China is buying increased volumes of Russian crude as …

PetroChina, China’s largest oil and gas producer, said on Monday that its Pengshen-6 oil well has reached a depth of 9,026 meters, smashing the record for deepest vertical well in Asia. Located in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the well has complex geological conditions and exploration work faced multiple challenges, including …

Changqing oilfield, China’s largest oil-and-gas field, produced over 65 million tons of oil equivalent (TOE) of crude oil and natural gas in 2022, setting a new record for output in China’s domestic oil and gas fields, the company said. Changqing oilfield built an oil and gas production capacity of over …

China’s largest unconventional onshore gas production field, located in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has reached daily output of 100 million cubic meters, PetroChina said on Saturday. Operated by PetroChina, China’s largest oil and natural gas producer, the Sulige Gas Field located north of the Ordos Basin in Inner …

Covid lockdowns, a property market crisis and a struggling domestic economy weren’t enough to slow down China’s oil giants as they posted record first half profits. PetroChina Co., Sinopec and Cnooc Ltd. each said they made historic amounts of money in the January-to-June period as surging prices for the oil …

As the global energy crisis deepens and countries scramble to secure reliable energy sources, investments in new liquified natural gas (LNG) infrastructure are set to surge, reaching $42 billion annually in 2024, Rystad Energy research shows. These greenfield investments are 200 times the amount in 2020 when just $2 billion …

Chinese fuel demand will continue to expand this year, despite COVID lockdowns and weak economic data for April, says PetroChina, the country’s biggest oil and gas refiner. “With the improvement of the COVID situation, refined product inventory is now showing a downturn,” Reuters quoted Ren Lixin, vice president of PetroChina, …

The completion of the Nord Stream 2, an undersea natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea that will greatly improve Russia’s capacity to transport gas to Germany, continued to drive up share prices of some Chinese energy companies on Tuesday, as some analysts said that companies investing in the Yamal …

The five largest oil and gas companies recorded a cumulative revenue of $1.14 trillion in 2020, representing a loss of about 30.9% or $500 billion from the 2019 figure of $1.65 trillion, according to data acquired by Finbold. PetroChina’s last year revenue stood at $280.7 billion, a drop of 19.28% …