China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is aiming to aggressively boost natural gas throughput from the Sichuan basin, where it is targeting a production increase of more than 50% by the end of the decade.
Much of the upstream focus will be on unconventional gas plays.
The company, China’s biggest natural gas producer, is targeting a number of gas plays for further development as part of a scheme to increase production to 30 billion cubic metres by 2020 from 19.5