The plan this year is to hook up the remaining 85% or so of almost 2000 already-drilled wells on the Shizhuang South (GSS) and Chengzhuang (GCZ) blocks into pipelines and infrastructure for gas sales in the domestic market.

Green Dragon chief executive Randeep Grewal describes the work as a “very long march” to significant production, adding that not all the sales gas pipelines, compressors and gas-gathering infrastructure are yet complete.