{"id":159823,"date":"2013-07-17T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=159823"},"modified":"2013-07-17T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:30:41","slug":"cnooc-targets-gas-fields-in-east-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/cnooc-targets-gas-fields-in-east-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"CNOOC Targets Gas Fields in East China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that China&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/07\/17\/us-cnooc-eastchinasea-idUSBRE96G0BA20130717\"><strong>state oil companies want to develop seven new gas fields in the disputed East China Sea<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beijing had slowed exploration in the energy-rich East\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/china?lc=int_mb_1001\">China<\/a>\u00a0Sea, one of Asia&#8217;s biggest security risks due to competing territorial claims, but is now rapidly expanding its hunt for gas, a cheaper and cleaner energy to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sectors\/industries\/overview?industryCode=4&lc=int_mb_1001\">coal<\/a>\u00a0and oil imports.<\/p>\n<p>State-run Chinese oil and gas firm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/stocks\/overview?symbol=CEO&lc=int_mb_1001\">CNOOC Ltd<\/a>\u00a0will soon submit for state approval a plan to develop Huangyan phase II and Pingbei, totaling seven new fields, two industry officials with direct knowledge of the projects told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The approval would bring the total number of fields in what is called the Huangyan project to nine. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/07\/17\/us-cnooc-eastchinasea-idUSBRE96G0BA20130717\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reuters adds that any approvals of the new projects will likely draw the ire of Japan, which has publicly opposed any unilateral push to explore the natural resource-rich area. Earlier this month, The Asahi Shimbun said that such moves by Beijing <a href=\"http:\/\/ajw.asahi.com\/article\/behind_news\/politics\/AJ201307040090\">undermine a 2008 commitment<\/a> to jointly develop the gas fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that China&#8217;s state oil companies want to develop seven new gas fields in the disputed East China Sea: Beijing had slowed exploration in the energy-rich East\u00a0China\u00a0Sea, one of Asia&#8217;s biggest security risks due to competing territorial claims, but is now rapidly expanding its hunt for gas, a cheaper and cleaner energy to\u00a0coal\u00a0and oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,14744,14745,14746,100,1],"tags":[5972,1970,70,15173,15249],"class_list":["post-159823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-cnooc","tag-east-china-sea","tag-japan","tag-oil-gas","tag-territorial-disputes","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CNOOC Targets Gas Fields in East China Sea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/cnooc-targets-gas-fields-in-east-china-sea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CNOOC Targets Gas Fields in East China Sea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reuters reports that China&#8217;s state oil companies want to develop seven new gas fields in the disputed East China Sea: Beijing had slowed exploration in the energy-rich East\u00a0China\u00a0Sea, one of Asia&#8217;s biggest security risks due to competing territorial claims, but is now rapidly expanding its hunt for gas, a cheaper and cleaner energy to\u00a0coal\u00a0and oil [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/cnooc-targets-gas-fields-in-east-china-sea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-17T16:30:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Scott Greene\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Scott Greene\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/cnooc-targets-gas-fields-in-east-china-sea\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/cnooc-targets-gas-fields-in-east-china-sea\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Scott Greene\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/3393334e12ee6be1f84abbe56c37b108\"},\"headline\":\"CNOOC Targets Gas Fields in East China Sea\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-07-17T16:30:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-07-17T16:30:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/cnooc-targets-gas-fields-in-east-china-sea\/\"},\"wordCount\":175,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"CNOOC\",\"east china sea\",\"Japan\",\"oil &amp; 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