New Bohai gas discovery to ease winter shortages

China National Offshore Oil Corp has made a large-sized natural gas field discovery in the Bohai oilfield, which will likely ease the gas shortage in northern China, the company said on Wednesday.

Discovery well Bozhong 19-6, which includes 10 wells with an average depth exceeding 4,000 meters, will see further evaluation of its gas reservoirs and proceed to the exploitation stage when all tests are completed, it said.

The company said earlier that the evaluation well was tested to produce some 1,000 barrels of oil and 6.4 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, with the gas reservoir seeing a total thickness of 348 meters.