Daqing (formerly called "Taching"[1][2]) complex is the largest oil field in the People's Republic of China (PRC), located between the Songhua river and Nunjiang river in Heilongjiang province. An oil field is a region with an abundance of Oil wells extracting Petroleum (crude oil from below ground Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES The Songhua River (also known as the Sungari River in English a name which comes from the Manchu language meaning White River) is a River in ( Postal map spelling: Heilungkiang Manchu: Sahaliyan ula is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern
Discovered in 1959 Wang Jinxi(known as 'Iron man' Wang, who led No. 1205 drilling team}, this field has produced over 10 billion barrels (1. 6 km³) of oil since 1960. Daqing contained 16 billion barrels (2. 5 km³) or 2. 2 billion tons in the beginning; the remaining recoverable reserves are about 3. 6 billion barrels (572,000,000 m³) or 500 million tons. The current production rate is about 1 million barrels (160,000 m³) per day, making it the fourth most productive oil field in the world. It is reputed[3] that during the first two decades of the life of the field, as much as 90% of the oil was wasted.
When the Chinese government began to use to pinyin Western characters for Romanization, the field's name became known as Daqing. Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use In Linguistics, romanization (or latinization, also spelled romanisation or latinisation) is the representation of a Word or
Daqing Oilfield Company Limited, based in Daqing, is the operator of exploration and development of Daqing Oilfield. Daqing ( formerly spelled "Taching" (pronounced Da Tshing is a city in northeast China in the Heilongjiang province. From 2004, the company plans to cut its crude oil output by an annual 7% for the next seven years to extend the life of Daqing. [4]
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References
- ^ China today
- ^ New China's first quarter-century (1975)
- ^ China shakes the World, 2006, Phoenix Books, ISBN 13-978-0-7538-2155-8
- ^ Daqing Oilfield to Slash Output in 2004. This list of Oil fields includes some of Major oil fields of the past and present
External links
- Daqing Oilfield Company Limited website
- By Tu Lei. "Daqing turns to green oilfield", 2007-06-10. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem (English)
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