PetroChina, the Chinese oil and gas major listed in Hong Kong and with LNG stakes in Canada and Mozambique, reported an 8.4 percent rise in first-quarter revenues and a return to profits after losses in the same three months of 2020, as it also completed the hand-over of control of the Dalian LNG terminal to the new state-owned energy infrastructure company.
China National Offshore Oil Corp., one of China’s main LNG importers, said its newly discovered Bozhong 13-2 oil and natural gas field in the Bohai Sea offshore northeast China could prove to be one of nation’s largest resource basins and will be subject to fast-track development.
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, the largest Chinese owner of oil refineries and with growing LNG volumes to match its contracted Australian supplies, reported a tumble in net profits of almost 46 percent in the year to date because of the double challenges in the energy market.
China Gas Holdings, one of the leading non-state controlled companies in the Chinese sector involved in city-gas and LNG, has been included in the Hang Seng Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong 300 Index for growing corporations as it pledged to replace more coal with gas in Northern China.