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    China's 9M CBM Output Jumps

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Shanxi is China’s primary CBM producing region.

by: Shardul Sharma

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Natural Gas & LNG News, Asia/Oceania

China's 9M CBM Output Jumps

China’s coalbed methane (CBM) production during the January-September period (9M 2019) was 6.35bn m3, up 16.4% yr/yr, country’s statistics department said last week. Shanxi is China’s primary CBM producing region.  

The department said that 9M 2019 output was 87.5% of 2018 total output of 7.26bn m3. During 9M 2019, Shanxi’s CBM production was 4.53bn m3, up 17% yr/yr and accounting for 71.3% of the country’s total output.