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Deepwater gas field utilizes remote control

China's first independently developed and built ultra-deepwater gas field, Shenhai Yihao, or Deep Sea No 1, has been upgraded to remote control production and can now ensure safe and stable production during typhoons, China National Offshore Oil Corporation said on Monday. The field's production equipment is in optimal operating condition at present, said Liu Xiaogang, general manager of CNOOC's Hainan subsidiary. It has provided over 4.5 billion cubic meters of gas since June 2021.

China to build 400-km hydrogen pipeline

China plans to build a hydrogen pipeline of more than 400 kilometers to more effectively transfer clean fuel from the resource-rich west to energy-consuming regions in the east. The project designed to channel hydrogen from Ulaanqab in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, to Beijing, will be the country's first transregional, long-distance hydrogen pipeline, said Ma Yongsheng, chairman of Sinopec, China's largest oil refiner and operator of the pipeline.

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