Large S China Sea gas field explored
Source: www.chinamining.org Citation: Xinhua Date: February 11, 2015
Over 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas has been discovered at the Lingshui 17-2 gas field in the South China Sea, China`s largest producer of offshore oil and gas announced on Monday.
The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) said the Ministry of Land and Resource has approved Lingshui 17-2 as a large-scale gasfield.
The company`s deepwater drilling rig CNOOC 981 discovered Lingshui 17-2, the country`s first self-support deepwater gas field, in September 2014.
Located 150 km south of Hainan Island, Lingshui 17-2`s average operational depth is 1,500 meters below the sea surface, according to the CNOOC.
Xie Yuhong, a manager with CNOOC, said the approved gas reserves of Lingshui 17-2 will help the corporation build a gas trunk line to connect other gas fields in the South China Sea, so as to meet the huge gas demand of southern provinces, Hong Kong and Macao.
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