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        "id": 1130913,
        "msgid": "cnooc-to-alter-lng-imports-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-09-13 00:00:00",
        "title": "CNOOC to alter LNG imports",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "CNOOC to alter LNG imports BEIJING: China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country's dominant producer of offshore oil and gas, said on Monday that it would diversify its import sources for liquefied natural gas (LNG). \"We would like to diversify our import sources,\" the company's deputy chief economist Zhang Weiping said at a business conference in Bejing.",
        "content": "<p>CNOOC to alter LNG imports<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING: China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the<br>\ncountry's dominant producer of offshore oil and gas, said on<br>\nMonday that it would diversify its import sources for liquefied<br>\nnatural gas (LNG).<\/p>\n<p>\"We would like to diversify our import sources,\" the company's<br>\ndeputy chief economist Zhang Weiping said at a business<br>\nconference in Bejing.<\/p>\n<p>The firm is looking at Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia as<br>\npotential areas for LNG, Zhang said, but did not expand on how<br>\nthese would be developed.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang also declined to comment on the progress of CNOOC's<br>\nacquisition of a 12.5 percent stake in a natural gas project in<br>\nWestern Australia, known as the Gorgon Project, expected to be<br>\ncompleted this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to analysts, CNOOC will need as much as 80 to 100<br>\nmillion tons of gas annually by 2015 to supply its terminals and<br>\nChina's increasingly energy-hungry cities.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the National Development and Reform Commission,<br>\nChina's top planning body, limited each Chinese province to one<br>\nLNG terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang said that the stance made little sense.<\/p>\n<p>\"China has enough demand for more than one terminal per<br>\nprovince,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>CNOOC, which is listed in Hong Kong, posted a first half net<br>\nprofit of 11.83 billion yuan (US$1.52 billion), up 68.6 percent,<br>\nboosted by record oil prices. -- AFP<\/p>",
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