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China's combustible ice estimated at 80 bln tonnes of oil equivalent

Chinaisestimatedtohave80billiontonnesofoilequivalentcombustibleice,theMinistryofLandandResourcessaidFriday.LiJinfa,deputydirectoroftheChinaGeologicalSurveyunder

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Wildcatters drill for oil in far west

​Yi Shiming's job is as rigorous as it is rewarding. As a wildcatter, a person who sinks exploratory oil wells, Yi is among hundreds of workers tasked with looking for black gold in China's far west.

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Energy cooperation "backbone" of Russia-China economic ties

​Energy cooperation has become the pillar of the Russia-China economic partnership, while bilateral interaction is expected to speed up in all economic fields.

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Win-win cooperation lifts China-Russia energy partnership to new high

Energy cooperation between China and Russia, featuring mutually beneficial cooperation in oil, natural gas, electricity, coal as well as nuclear and renewable energy, has been ever growing and has reached a new high.

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Iraqi forces foil multiple suicide attacks at gas plant near Baghdad

Iraqi security forces on Sunday foiled multiple suicide bomb attacks targeting a gas plant in the northern suburb of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

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Russia remains "reliable" gas supplier for Europe: Gazprom chairman

Russia will remain a reliable gas supplier for Europe, Viktor Zubkov, chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors said Tuesday here at the Central European Gas Congress.

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Hospital blames gas for blinding patients

Substandard medical gas caused serious eye injuries to dozens of patients undergoing eye surgery at Peking University Third Hospital, the hospital said on Thursday.

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S.Korea sees gas demand falling 5 percent by 2029

South Korea expects its demand for natural gas to fall by 5 percent over the next 15 years, as increased use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by households and industry only partly offsets a steep fall in its demand for power generation.

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Bulgaria, Turkey to jointly build gas, rail links: PMs

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his visiting Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday said their countries would jointly build a gas interconnector and a high-speed rail line.

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Australian largest oil&gas company approves 2 bln dollars gas development

Australia's largest oil and gas company Woodside Petroleum on Friday announced it had approved a 2 billion U.S. dollars gas development on Australia's north west shelf.

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B&R oil gas cooperation to focus on six fields, key projects to initiate

“The Belt and Road Initiative” (hereinafter the “B&R”) is now speeding up and stepping towards detailed implementation. It is learnt by journalist from the Economic Information Daily that, as the “highlight” of foreign cooperation, specialized planning on the energy sector has been drafted at the stage of seeking for public opinions and improvement. Based on current thought, oil and gas cooperation will focus on six key fields, including “four cooperative zones” and “six industrial regions”, to establish and improve the transaction center for oil and natural gas, open up new sea-and-rail transportation line, construct oil & gas mainline in Asia, create a series of first-class international oil & gas enterprises, and enhance energy equipment manufacturing and “going out” of energy service enterprises.

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Leaders of Cyprus, Egypt discuss energy cooperation after Zohr gas discovery

​The leaders of Cyprus and Egypt discussed energy cooperation following the discovery of a mammoth natural gas field by Egypt, an official statement issued in Nicosia said on Thursday.

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Egypt pins hope on new gas discovery for energy supply

​The recent discovery of the largest natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea in the Egyptian offshore is expected to rescue Egypt from energy shortage and trouble, said experts here.

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11 killed in gas reservoir fire in W. Afghanistan

At least 11 people were killed while 18 others wounded after a reservoir of liquefied gas caught fire in Herat city, capital of western Afghanistan's Herat province overnight Monday, sources said on Tuesday.

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Illegal demolitions blamed for NW China college dorm blast

Thirty-one people were injured after a gas explosion occurred at a dormitory at a northwest China university on Monday morning, local authorities said.

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Mass Israelis rally against "robbery" of natural gas resources

​Thousands of Israelis took to the streets in major cities on Saturday evening in protest of a government's plan to let a U.S.-Israeli partnership keep control over the country's natural gas fields.

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Gas blast kills one, injures nine in southeast Mexico

At least one person was killed and nine others injured Sunday in a gas blast in southeastern Mexico, local authorities said.