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China’s low-permeability gas resources await development

01/05/2009
China has large volumes of low-permeability natural gas resources with unique characteristics that could be exploited with appropriate technologies. At present, lack of development and management technologies has hindered effective exploitation of these resources.The low-permeability gas resources are distributed widely in the Ordos, Sichuan, Tarim basins, as well in other basins.Resource estimatesIn China, exploration efforts to date have yielded the discovery of more than 30 large and medium-sized, low-permeability gas reservoirs. Proved reserves are greater than 2 trillion cu m (about 70.6 tcf), accounting for more than half the total proved natural gas reserves in China.1In Ordos basi...
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