Natural gas is indispensable in our life, used for cooking, heating, etc. Most of the natural gas used in China now relies on independent development and imports, so do you know what are the top ten natural gas fields in China? Interested friends, let’s find out together.
1. Anyue Gas Field安岳气田
Anyue Gas Field is the first large-scale integrated gas field with proven reserves of more than 100 billion cubic meters in southern Sichuan. It is located in Suining and Ziyang, Sichuan and Tongnan County, Chongqing. Geologically, it is located in the Caledonian paleo-uplift in central Sichuan.
It took less than two years for the gas reservoir of the Longwangmiao Formation in Moxi to go from discovery to verification and then to the successful commissioning of the 1 billion cubic meter trial production project. The first phase of production capacity construction of 4 billion cubic meters has been fully launched, and the second phase of production capacity construction of 6 billion cubic meters has started. With the continuous advancement of exploration and development, the natural gas reserves and production scale of this gas reservoir will be further expanded. As of 2013, the cumulative test production of gas in this block exceeded 600 million cubic meters.
In February 2014, as approved by the Ministry of Land and Resources, the newly-added proved geological reserves of natural gas in the Cambrian Longwangmiao Formation in the Moxi block of the Anyue gas field were 440.385 billion cubic meters, and the technically recoverable reserves were 308.2 billion cubic meters. It is the largest super-large marine carbonate monolithic gas reservoir.
2. Sulige Gas Field苏里格气田
The Sulige gas field is located in the Suligemiao area of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. It is my country’s first large gas field with proven reserves exceeding one trillion cubic meters. It has an exploration area of 60,000 square kilometers and a total resource of 5.5 trillion cubic meters.
As of the end of December 2022, the natural gas production of the Sulige Gas Field has exceeded 30 billion cubic meters, accounting for about 58% of my country’s total onshore tight gas production. At the same time, the daily gas production of the Sulige Gas Field reached 105 million cubic meters, making it a complete gas field with a daily natural gas production exceeding 100 million cubic meters.
3.Fuling Shale Gas Field涪陵页岩气田
The Fuling shale gas field is evaluated based on existing geological data and production capacity, with a resource of 2.1 trillion cubic meters. It is the first large-scale shale gas field in China and the largest shale gas field in the world except North America. Sinopec stated that it plans to build a shale gas field with an annual production capacity of 10 billion cubic meters in 2017, which is equivalent to building a large oil field with a capacity of 10 million tons. It is estimated that the Fuling shale gas field will achieve a production capacity of 1.8 billion cubic meters per year by the end of 2014, and a production capacity of 5 billion cubic meters per year will be completed by the end of 2015. In March 2018, the Fuling shale gas field, my country’s first large-scale shale gas field, was built on schedule with an annual production capacity of 10 billion cubic meters, which is equivalent to a large oil field with a capacity of 10 million tons.
This marks that my country’s shale gas has accelerated into the stage of large-scale commercial development, which is of great significance for promoting the adjustment of energy structure, alleviating the supply pressure of the natural gas market in the central and eastern regions of my country, accelerating energy conservation and emission reduction, and air pollution prevention and control.
The cumulative gas production and gas sales volume of the Fuling shale gas field have both exceeded 16 billion cubic meters. In 2017, the output reached 6.004 billion cubic meters, and the daily sales of shale gas reached 16.7 million cubic meters, which can meet the daily gas demand of 33.4 million households. .
4. Daniudi Gas Field大牛地气田
The Daniudi gas field is located in the Yuyang area of Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. The current natural gas reserves have reached 454.5 billion cubic meters, ranking fifth in the country.
The Daniudi Gas Field is located in the Daniudi Gas Field block in the northern Shaanxi-Mongol Ordos Basin and the oil and gas exploration block in the Tabamiao area in the northern Shaanxi-Mongol Ordos Basin registered by Sinopec North China Branch. The company is responsible for exploration and development. Daniudi Gas Field is located in the Ordos Basin, with natural gas resources of 823.7 billion cubic meters.
In 2000, the gas field submitted 16.4 billion cubic meters of proven reserves and 17 billion cubic meters of controlled reserves, and was listed by Sinopec as an important resource replacement area during the Tenth Five-Year Plan. In 2003, aiming at the congenital defects of low-pressure and low-permeability reservoirs in Daniudi Gas Field, a pilot development test was successfully implemented. In 2005, Daniudi Gas Field officially launched its production capacity of 1 billion cubic meters, realizing the supply of gas to Beijing, Shandong, Henan, and Inner Mongolia. It has become an important natural gas production base of Sinopec.
5. Puguang Gas Field普光气田
The Puguang Gas Field is located in Xuanhan County, Dazhou City, Sichuan Province. The 7-day natural gas reserves reached 412.2 billion cubic meters. It is the largest marine integrated high-sulfur gas field discovered in China so far.
Puguang Gas Field is located in Puguang Town, Xuanhan County, Dazhou City, Sichuan Province. It is an ultra-deep, high-sulfur, high-pressure, complex mountainous gas field. The Puguang Gas Field is the largest marine integrated high-sulfur gas field discovered in China. As of February 2013, the proven natural gas geological reserves were 41.22 million cubic kilometers. According to the gas reservoir classification standard of China’s petroleum and natural gas industry, it belongs to the extra large gas reservoir. In order to effectively develop and utilize high-sulfur natural gas resources, the State Council listed the “Sichuan-to-East Gas Transmission” project as a major national project in the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” and took the Puguang Gas Field as the main gas supply source of the project, benefiting a total of 6 provinces and 2 municipalities directly under the central government in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. More than 70 large and medium-sized cities, thousands of enterprises, and more than 200 million residents.
On March 20, 2018, the key exploration well in the Puguang Gas Field – Well Fen 3 obtained industrial gas flow, with a daily gas production of up to 830,000 cubic meters. The oil pressure in the formation remained stable, and it has a good prospect for resource exploration. The exploration breakthrough of Well Fen 3 shows that the exploration prospects around the main body of the Puguang Gas Field are good. In the next step, the Puguang Gas Field will deploy 3 exploration wells, including Well Dawan 4 and Well Yangliu 1, to further confirm the amount of peripheral resources and consolidate the resource base for extending the stable production period of the gas field.
6. Yuanba Gas Field元坝气田
Yuanba Gas Field is located in Guangyuan, Nanchong, and Bazhong, Sichuan Province. It is the world’s first ultra-deep and high-sulfur reef gas field with a depth of more than 7,000 meters.
The first phase of proven natural gas geological reserves is 159 cubic kilometers, which is the deepest buried marine gas field in China so far. The Yuanba gas field officially started construction at the end of August 2011, with a daily output of more than 10 million cubic meters by the end of the year. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the gas field is expected to form an annual production capacity of more than 340 million cubic kilometers.
7. Dina 2 Gas Field迪那2气田
The Dina 2 Gas Field, also known as the Dina 2 Gas Field of PetroChina Tarim Oilfield, is located in Kuqa County, Xinjiang. It is the largest condensate gas field in China as of November 2018, and it is a deep abnormally high-pressure condensate gas reservoir. The Dina 2 gas field was put into production on June 28, 2009.
In the early morning of December 2, 2018, the expansion project of the Dina 2 oil and gas processing plant was put into operation, and the daily natural gas processing capacity of the Dina 2 gas field reached 20 million cubic meters per day.
8. Kelamei Gas Field克拉美丽气田
The Kelameili gas field is the first large gas field with a scale of 100 cubic kilometers in the Junggar Basin, with reserves reaching 103.3 billion cubic meters. The annual gas production of the gas field is 1 cubic kilometer in the early stage, and the gas supply can be stable for 50 years according to this scale. This is another large gas field put into production in Xinjiang Oilfield after the Mahe gas field was put into production on November 20, 2007. It is a complete large gas field that took less than 3 years from exploration to production. With the commissioning of the Kelameili Gas Field, Xinjiang Oilfield has taken a big step forward from a large oil field to a large oil and gas field, and the outline of simultaneous development of oil and gas has begun to emerge. It marks that Xinjiang Oilfield has entered a new realm in natural gas exploration and development, forming a new strategic pattern.
On June 20, 2019, the Kelameili Gas Field started construction of a 377.31-kilometer long-distance ethane pipeline project. After completion, it will become the longest long-distance ethane pipeline in China, further ensuring energy security.
9. Bozhong 19-6 Condensate Gas Field渤中19-6气田
The Bozhong 19-6 condensate gas field is located in the central part of the Bohai Sea. It is the first large-scale, self-contained, high-yield, and ultra-high condensate oil-containing 100 billion cubic meter condensate gas field in eastern China.
On March 26, 2022, the first-phase development project of Bozhong 19-6 condensate gas field started in Qingdao. It is understood that this gas field is the first 100 billion cubic meter gas field in the Bohai Bay of the People’s Republic of China. The first phase of the project is planned to be drilled in November 2022 and put into production in 2023.
10. Keshen Gas Field克深气田
Keshen Gas Field is one of the main gas fields of the West-to-East Gas Pipeline. It is China’s first ultra-deep clastic rock gas field with an annual output of 10 billion cubic meters. It is located near Kuqa County in the Tarim Basin and is located in the complex mountainous area of the Southern Tianshan Mountains.
Keshen Gas Field is one of the main gas fields of the West-to-East Gas Transmission Project, located near Kuqa County in the Tarim Basin, in the complex mountainous area of the South Tianshan Mountains. Discovered in June 2008, the gas field is a rare ultra-deep and ultra-high pressure fractured tight sandstone gas reservoir in the world.
The natural gas production of Keshen Gas Field is stable at more than 18 million cubic meters, which is equivalent to meeting the gas demand of more than 20 million households every day.
