The Tarim oilfield supplied 24.86bn m³ of natural gas to the West-East Gas Pipeline network between the start of the year and December 27, up 18% year/year, its state-run operator CNPC said on December 29. 

There are currently over 1,100 production wells at the field, producing at a record rate of more than 95mn m³/day, the company said. The field, situated in China's northwestern Xinjiang province, flowed 28.05bn m³ of gas last year. Its overall hydrocarbon output came to 30mn metric tons of oil equivalent between January 1 and December 21, and CNPC plans to raise annual extraction to 40mn mt of oil equivalent by 2025.

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The 4,000-km West-East Gas Pipeline runs from Lunnan in Xinjiang to Shanghai in the east.