The first phase of China’s Bozhong 19-6 gas field, the country’s first 100-billion-cubic-meter-scale gas field in the Bohai Sea, has entered full operation, with daily oil and gas output exceeding 5,200 tonnes, China National Offshore Oil Corporation said on Sunday.
The project’s commissioning is of great significance for optimizing the regional energy structure and supporting high-quality economic and social development.
Located in the central waters of the Bohai Sea, the Bozhong 19-6 gas field has proven geological reserves of more than 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas and over 200 million cubic meters of oil liquids.
The gas field is buried at depths of more than 5,000 meters and features widely distributed but complex oil and gas reservoirs, as well as densely fractured buried-hill formations, making its development far more challenging than that of conventional offshore oil and gas fields.
China’s natural gas reserves are unevenly distributed, with larger reserves in the west and smaller reserves in the east. As the largest offshore gas field in eastern China, Bozhong 19-6 has produced more than 2.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas so far, making it an important contributor to ensuring a stable gas supply for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Bohai rim area.
China is currently entering a critical period of peak summer energy demand. The full operation of the project’s first phase will further help meet the energy needs of local residents and industrial production.
Drilling operations for the second phase of the gas field have been fully launched and are expected to further strengthen the role of offshore oil and gas resources in supporting China’s domestic energy supply.
