Reuters reported on September 25, chengdu, China's largest oil company of China petroleum and natural gas Co., LTD (China oil/PetroChina) sichuan branch director li, 25, LuGuang said, China's oil plan in 2015 from southwest China's sichuan basin produce 1 billion cubic meters of shale gas, sichuan basin to the Chinese market will then provide the first commercial shale gas production.

  According to Chinese oil sichuan branch, China under the competent said oil exploration company nowadays is three blocks of sichuan in shale gas exploration, the three blocks were persuaded by the bloc, the block and rich shun-vying YongChuan block. The first two exploration area covers an area of 6567 square kilometers, third block area is 3818 square kilometers, China petroleum and shell company for this block nowadays is conduct joint research.

  China at present is in the early stages of shale gas exploration, so far, no commercial production.

  China's natural gas usage is projected to reach 2020 by in 2010 to 100 billion cubic meters than double.