Published 23rd January, 2013
China’s largest oilfield maintains its top status after 10 consecutive years of high production.
Situated in North China’s Heilongjiang province, the Daqing Oilfield has maintained steady production of 40 million tonnes plus per annum since 2002. The latest reports showed that 2012 was another bumper year for the PetroChina-owned oilfield, which produced more than 40 million tonnes of crude as well as 3.3 billion cubic metres of natural gas.
Officials at CNPC, parent of PetroChina, expect the field will maintain current production levels during the 12th Five-year Plan period (2011-2015 despite shrinking output due to harder operations in oil exploitation.