CNPC to ramp up clean energy output

China National Petroleum Corp, the country's biggest oil and gas company, said recently that it will ramp up clean energy production capacity and ensure that domestic natural gas accounts for more than 50 percent of its primary energy output at home by 2020.

Domestic natural gas output accounted for 50 percent of its primary energy output at home last year and is expected to reach 55 percent by 2025, said Zhou Aiguo, deputy director of its quality health safety and environment department.

The company, also known as PetroChina, said its natural gas production reached 138.02 billion cubic meters in 2018, of which 109.37 billion cubic meters were domestic output, a year-on-year increase of 5.9 percent and which accounted for 70.2 percent of the domestic natural gas production last year, according to the 2018 Environmental Protection Communique 2018.