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as well as the construction of a hydrogen trucks and buses to support the games’ logistical
refuelling station. needs.
CNPC said its station – which consists of a Royal Dutch Shell announced in November
hydrogenation area, a hydrogen storage area 2020 that it had formed a joint venture with
and a process device area – operates at an aver- Zhangjiakou-based ZJK JT to build a 20-MW
age capacity of 1,000kg per day. The facility is hydrogen electrolyser to produce green hydro-
expected to refuel thousands of vehicles during gen. The fuel output will be used to meet the
the Games. demand from the city’s planned hydrogen fleet.
The station had refuelled a total 470 vehicles While China is a global leader in terms of
as of February 19, dispensing a total of 4,958.94 hydrogen production, its output is tied to fossil
kg of hydrogen, according to CNPC, which fuels and the economic giant has been slower to
added that it intended to launch 50 such facili- explore green and even blue hydrogen options.
ties across China. The country produces around 20mn tonnes per
Zhangjiakou City, which is hosting part of the year (tpy) of the clean fuel, a figure that accounts
Winter Olympics, will deploy 1,000 hydrogen for around a third of the world’s production.
CNOOC Ltd starts up
shallow-water oilfield
PROJECTS & STATE-RUN Chinese offshore developer CNOOC Ltd announced plans earlier this
COMPANIES CNOOC Ltd has announced the start-up of year to boost its oil and gas production in 2021
production at its wholly-owned Caofeidian 6-4 by 3-5% as it seeks to bring on stream several
oilfield in the shallow waters of Bohai Bay. new fields both at home and abroad.
While CNOOC Ltd, a unit of state-owned The developer aims to produce 545-555mn
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), barrels of oil equivalent in 2021, up from a
built a new central platform at Caofeidian 6-4, 528mn boe in 2020, with around 68% that figure
the company noted it had been able to tie the to come from domestic fields.
project back to existing processing facilities at CNOOC Ltd has set out a development
the Nanpu 35-2 and Qinhuangdao 32-6 oilfields. budget CNY90-100bn ($13.96-15.51bn) for
The state developer intends to drill 30 pro- this year and wants to drill 217 exploration
duction wells and 12 water injection wells and wells as well as bring 19 new projects on line.
water source wells at Caofeidian 6-4, which is The company highlighting projects such as
in Bohai’s Midwest in average water depths of Caofeidian 6-4 oilfield as a key component of
around 20 metres, reaching peak production of its production strategy.
around 15,000 barrels per day of oil in 2023. The company announced last month that
The company said it would promote green it had made a significant shallow-water oil
and low-carbon production at the oilfield, with and gas discovery in the Bohai Bay in the
the project set to eliminate sewage emissions Bozhong 13-2 structure. CNOOC Ltd said
while also reducing its dependency on coal-fired at the time that the BZ13-2-2 well had made
power consumption thanks to the fact the pro- a “large-sized” discovery, without providing
ject generates its own power. a resource estimate.
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