A number of important breakthroughs have been made in national oil and gas exploration in 2020

The National Petroleum and Natural Gas Resources Exploration and Exploitation Bulletin (2020) recently released by the Ministry of Natural Resources (hereinafter referred to as the "Bulletin") shows that in 2020, a number of important breakthroughs have been made in national oil and gas exploration
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Proved reserves of oil and gas increased, adding two hundred million-ton oil fields, one hundred-billion-square-meter natural gas field, and one hundred-billion-square-meter shale gas field; oil and gas exploitation continued to show a trend of "steady oil and gas growth", and oil production continued for two consecutive times.

The "Bulletin" shows that in 2020, the newly discovered oil and natural gas reserves will increase substantially-

The newly-added proven geological reserves of petroleum were 1.
322 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 17.
7%, and continued to grow since 2018

The newly-added proven geological reserves of natural gas were 1051.
458 billion cubic meters, a year-on-year increase of 30%

The newly-added proven geological reserves of shale gas were 191.
827 billion cubic meters, a year-on-year decrease of 74.
9%.

By the end of 2020, there were 1,060 proven oil and gas fields, 7 shale gas fields, 28 coal-bed methane fields, and 3 carbon dioxide gas fields nationwide
.
Cumulative proven geological reserves of oil, natural gas, shale gas and coalbed methane are 42.
2 billion tons, 16.

The "Bulletin" shows that in 2020, the output of oil and coal-bed methane will continue to grow steadily, the output of natural gas will increase rapidly, and the output of shale gas will increase substantially——

Oil production was 195 million tons, a steady increase for two consecutive years, an increase of 2.
1% year-on-year

The output of conventional natural gas was 161.
822 billion cubic meters, exceeding 150 billion cubic meters for the second consecutive year, a year-on-year increase of 7.
2%

The production of shale gas was 20.
055 billion cubic meters, a year-on-year increase of 30.

　　As of the end of 2020, the country has produced 7.
35 billion tons of oil, 2.
38 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, 69.
13 billion cubic meters of shale gas, and 28.
866 billion cubic meters of coal-bed methane
.

　　The "Bulletin" shows that the basic geological survey of oil and gas has made important progress in new areas, new strata, new types and other new fields
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First, an important breakthrough has been made in the investigation of continental shale oil and gas in the Songliao Basin.
The Jiliye Oil Well 1 in the southern Lishu Fault Depression obtained 76,000 cubic meters of industrial gas per day in the Shahezi Formation for the first time, and obtained new continental shale gas strata and new formations.
An important breakthrough in type investigation; Well Songyeyou 3 in the northern Sanzhao Sag obtained industrial oil flow in normal-pressure, low-to-medium thermal evolution shale reservoirs, opening up a new area for shale oil investigation
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Second, new progress has been made in shale gas geological surveys in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Anhui, the middle reaches of Hunan, the upper reaches of Yunnan Daguan, and Guizhou Danzhai
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The third is that the Xinsudi 1 well in the northwestern margin of the Tarim Basin obtained industrial gas flow during the two-layer fracturing of the Silurian, and new progress has been made in the oil and gas investigation of the new Silurian strata
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Fourth is coal

　　The survey of bed gas has broken through the industrial gas flow barrier in the coal mining area, goaf area, and peripheral deep layers of the Jixi Basin.
Plan new areas of oil and gas resource investigation
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Fifth, the second round of trial production of natural gas hydrate in the Shenhu area of ​​the South China Sea successfully achieved the leap from "exploratory trial production" to "experimental trial production"
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Sixth, new progress has been made in the investigation of oil and gas resources in key sea areas and new formations in the South Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and northern South China Sea
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　　The "Bulletin" also shows that in 2020, due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and low oil prices, the investment in the completion of oil and gas exploration and exploitation will decrease and the workload will decrease
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National oil and gas (including oil, natural gas, shale gas, coalbed methane and natural gas hydrate) completed exploration investment of 71.
024 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 12%; national oil and gas exploration investment was 224.
948 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 11%
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(Reporter Wu Qihua)

　　Transfer from: China Mining News