China’s major shale oil base achieves annual output of over 1m tons

The output of China’s first national-level shale oil demonstration zone, located in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, has exceeded 1 million tons so far this year, marking a significant breakthrough in the country’s shale oil exploitation, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) announced Tuesday. A total of 306 wells have been built in the Jimsar national-level shale ...