Chevron: gas production starts at Chuandongbei project

Energy giant and LNG player Chevron said on Tuesday its Chinese unit, Unocal East China Sea started producing gas from the first stage of the Chuandongbei project in southwest China.

According to Chevron’s statement, Chuandongbei is one of the largest onshore gas projects developed by an international oil company and a national oil company in China and holds an estimated 3 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

The stage one of the project started with the start-up of the first train, and Chevron revealed that the production is planned to ramp up over the coming months as all three trains with a total capacity of 258 million cubic feet of natural gas per day come on line.

Unocal East China Sea holds a 49 percent participating interest as the operator and China National Petroleum Corporation holds a 51 participating percent interest.

LNG World News Staff