Gas field project in China's Bohai Sea makes breakthrough

STORY: Gas field project in China's Bohai Sea makes breakthrough DATELINE: March 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:29 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of gas field in China's Bohai Sea STORYLINE: The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced on Monday that the installation of the BOP (blowout preventer) group of Bozhong 19-6, a massive gas field in China's Bohai Sea on the east coast, has been completed. The BOP group is an important safety device for offshore drilling. First discovered in 2019 in the central Bohai Sea, Bozhong 19-6 has proven reserves of over 150 million cubic meters of oil and nearly 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas. Construction for the first phase of the gas field project started in March 2022. The pilot-area development project of the gas field went into operation in October 2020, with peak production of 1 million cubic meters of natural gas and 950 cubic meters of condensate oil per day. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting fro