Moreover, the project will further consolidate Shell’s position in the nation’s emerging gas industry.
C hina is unfolding an ambitious shale gas plan, aiming to produce 6.5 billion cubic metres per annum by 2015.
It then wants to expand that figure rapidly to between 60 and 100 Bcm by 2020.
Other targets include confirming 1 trillion cubic metres of shale gas in place, including 200 Bcm of recoverable reserves, as well as shooting 43,000 kilometres of 2D seismic and 4300 square kilometres of 3D seismic before 2015.
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