China raised its liquefied natural gas imports by 69% last year to meet rising domestic demand for the relatively clean-burning fuel, final monthly data released by the General Administration of Customs confirmed Friday.
China
raised its liquefied natural gas imports by 69% last year to meet rising
domestic demand for the relatively clean-burning fuel, final monthly data
released by the General Administration of Customs confirmed Friday.
China
shipped in 1.03 million tons of LNG in December, up 87% from a year earlier,
bringing the year's total to 9.36 million tons, the data showed, in line with
numbers issued by the Hong Kong-based
China
Customs
Statistics
Information
Center
on
Jan. 19.
LNG imports are expected to rise to 12 million metric tons this year, according
to the research unit of China National Petroleum Corp.
In a forecast issued Thursday, CNPC said domestic natural gas output could rise
by 11% to 105 billion cubic meters this year, while consumption will hit 130
billion cubic meters.
CNPC, the nation's top oil and gas producer by volume, will bring online its
first two LNG receiving terminals this year, one in northeastern
Dalian
city
and one in eastern
Jiangsu
province, each with annual receiving capacity of 3 million and 3.5 million
tons, respectively.
China
also
imported 446,250 tons of natural gas in December.
Friday's data confirmed that December crude-oil imports reached 20.86 million
metric tons, equivalent to 4.93 million barrels a day, down 1.9% from a year
earlier.
Διαβάστε ακόμα
Τρι, 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 19:58
Τρι, 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 19:54
Τετ, 18 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 18:32
Τετ, 18 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 18:27
Τρι, 17 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 20:01