From Xinhua:
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China has for the first time outstripped Heilongjiang Province, in the northeast, as China’s top natural gas and oil producer.
Latest data from four major northwestern oil and gas bases revealed that Xinjiang produced 26.4 million tons of crude oil and21.2 billion cubic meters of gas last year, or 43.3 million tons of oil equivalent. The latter figure represented a rise of 13.6 percent from 2006….[Full Text]