Fuling field ranks 1st in production, sales

The Fuling shale gas field, China's largest of its kind, generated more than 6 billion cubic meters of shale gas in 2018, according to its developer China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, the world's largest refiner by volume.

The gas field's sales reached 5.78 billion cu m last year, placing the gas field top nationwide both for production and sales.

Thanks to new domestic drilling technology and cost-cutting measures, the Fuling field, located in Southwest China's Chongqing, had produced more than 21.5 billion cu m by the end of 2018, Sinopec said.