On the 19th, YANG Qing-li,
General Manager of CNPC Engineering Sub-Company expressed at the 6thInternational
Petroleum Summit that CNPC was to enhance shale gas development to realize 2.6
billion m3 shale gas exploitation of in the year of 2015.
As required by the National Development and
Reform Commission, CNPC will deploy 48 more drilling rigs for 3 areas in 2014
to meet the target of the shale gas output yield planned for 2015. Before that,
CNPC has been putting its main effort on conventional oil-gas and tight gas.
YANG Qing-li said that the business of CNPC
Engineering Technology Sub-Company covered technical service projects for CNPC
oil-gas development. Currently, there are totally 6400 teams from CNPC,
distributed to various fields, eg. geophysical prospecting seismic acquisition,
land drilling, oil drilling platform, well logging, etc. Till now, CNPC has
constructed a total of 2030 horizontal wells, completed 606 under-balanced
wells, 4034 wells for well operation under pressure, 1020 horizontal wells and
8211 stages for staged fracturing.