
China’s CNPC Begins Exploration of Oil and Gas Fields in Tajikistan
Geophysical works in the form of 2D seismic surveys have begun at oil and gas fields in the southwestern regions of Tajikistan. The operations are being carried out by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), according to the press service of the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources of Tajikistan. …

France’s TotalEnergies Produces First Oil from Mero-4 Field in Brazil
French energy company TotalEnergies has announced the first oil production from the fourth development phase of the Mero field, located in the Libra block, approximately 180 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in the pre-salt zone of the Santos Basin, Brazil. Launched in August 2021, the new phase—known …

The Russian Federation Plans to Extract Oil in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
The Russian Federation Plans to Extract Oil in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan According to statements made by Nuriddin Azizi, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and the Business Representative of the Russian Federation in Afghanistan, a Russian company has already begun geological exploration activities …

China Will Begin Searching for Oil and Gas at a Depth of 10 km
China is creating a new organization that will unite national oil producers and other state-owned companies to search for ultra-deep oil and gas reserves, as well as the production of other hard-to-recover reserves, CNPC said, whose statement was cited by Reuters. This is in response to President Xi Jinping’s call …

Tajikistan Will Soon Have a Lot of Oil and Gas
The Bokhtar project, which the Chinese CNPC took over from the French TotalEnergies in Tajikistan, has entered the implementation stage. The Chinese CNPC has begun implementing a project for the exploration and production of new hydrocarbon deposits in southwest Tajikistan. We are talking about the Bokhtar project, located in the …

CNPC Specialists Have Begun Geological Exploration Work in the Southwest of Tajikistan
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has begun implementing a project for the exploration and production of new hydrocarbon deposits in southwest Tajikistan. This was announced by CNPC General Director B. Deji. On April 11, 2024, the launch ceremony of the project for the development of new fields in southwestern …

An Ultra-Deep Well, Shenditake-1, 10 Thousand Meters Deep, Was Drilled In China
Drilling depth of the Shenditake-1 ultra-deep well in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) on March 4 at 14:48. reached 10 thousand m, which marks a breakthrough in the country’s deep geological exploration. Xinhua agency reports this. Shenditake-1 well located in the interior region of the Taklamakan Desert, in the …

Gazprom and CNPC Discuss Joint Work Planned for 2024
The meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) of Gazprom and China’s CNPC moderated by Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Huang Yongzhang, Vice President of CNPC, took place today in Beijing. The meeting participants reviewed the results of their joint activities for 2023 and discussed the plans regarding key areas of cooperation for the …

CNPC is Discussing Hydrocarbon Production with Gazprom, Rosneft and Novatek
China is trying to work with all parties, including Gazprom, to develop high-quality energy cooperation, Beijing said Chinese CNPC is discussing cooperation with Gazprom, Rosneft and Novatek in terms of hydrocarbon trading and pipeline expansion. This was stated by Vice President of CNPC Xie Jun during the St. Petersburg International …

Rosneft and CNPC Signed an Agreement on Joint Development of Hydraulic Fracturing Technology
The Rosneft Scientific Institute in Ufa and the Research Institute of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) entered into an Agreement on technological cooperation in the field of design and modeling of the hydraulic fracturing (HF) process within the framework of the V Russian-Chinese Energy Business Forum. The document provides …