A PetroChina station in Xinjiang, China. Photo: Wikipedia
A PetroChina station in Xinjiang, China. Photo: Wikipedia

PetroChina, China’s largest and most profitable oil and gas producer, said its Xinjian branch has churned out more than 100 million tonnes of heavy crude oil, thanks to its innovative technologies, Xinhua reported.

The Xinjiang Oilfield Company said that it produced 4.32 million tonnes of heavy crude oil last year and has become China’s largest production base for high-quality naphthenic base heavy oil, a rare raw material for industrial products such as rocket propellant, the report said.

Qian Genbao, chief technical expert with the company, said that technological innovations have helped the company raise the efficiency of heavy oil recovery by 30 percentage points to over 60 percent. The company said its new technologies have also been applied in oilfields in northeast China, as well as in Kazakhstan, Canada and Venezuela.

PetroChina posted a 130.7 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit for 2018 to 52.59 billion yuan (US$7.86 billion), and is forecast to report a net profit of 57.5 billion yuan, according to a Bloomberg poll.

This week, Forbes reported that China’s initiative to increase 2019 capital investment in oil exploration to US$77 billion, signals a new strategic direction. The goal is to increase domestic production by 50%, up more than 2 million barrels per day over the next five years.

Join the Conversation

1090 Comments

  1. I do enjoy the way you have framed this specific difficulty plus it does give us some fodder for consideration. However, through everything that I have personally seen, I just simply hope when the actual opinions pack on that individuals stay on issue and in no way get started on a tirade regarding some other news du jour. Yet, thank you for this superb point and though I can not really agree with the idea in totality, I regard your point of view.

  2. I precisely wished to say thanks once again. I’m not certain the things I would’ve created in the absence of those creative concepts discussed by you over this subject matter. It absolutely was the fearsome condition for me personally, but spending time with this specialised fashion you resolved the issue forced me to leap for delight. I am happier for this advice and then expect you recognize what a powerful job your are providing instructing many others all through a blog. Most likely you’ve never encountered any of us.

  3. Magnificent beat ! I would like to apprentice whilst you amend your site, how could i subscribe for a weblog web site? The account aided me a appropriate deal. I had been a little bit familiar of this your broadcast offered bright transparent idea

  4. Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You obviously know what youre talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your site when you could be giving us something informative to read?

  5. What i don’t realize is in reality how you are now not really a lot more well-appreciated than you might be right now. You are very intelligent. You know therefore considerably with regards to this topic, made me individually imagine it from a lot of various angles. Its like women and men aren’t interested except it is one thing to accomplish with Lady gaga! Your own stuffs excellent. At all times handle it up!

  6. It’s really a nice and helpful piece of info. I’m satisfied that you just shared this useful info with us. Please stay us up to date like this. Thanks for sharing.