中國渤海，油田再現

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1The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced that it had discovered a field in the Bohai Sea with estimated crude oil and natural gas reserves exceeding 100 million tonnes of oil equivalent.

2The oil field, Bozhong 26-6, 170 kilometers off Tianjin Municipality at an average depth of 22.1 meters, is the third discovery of an oilfield with over 100 million tons in the past three years.

3The find further enhances China's offshore oil and gas reserve base and is of great importance for safeguarding China's energy security.Test drilling could produce 270 tons of crude and 0.32 million cubic meters of gas per day,demonstrating the oil field's potential.

4The oilfield is estimated at 130 million tons of oil equivalent.It could produce 20 million tons of crude, enough to power 10,000 cars to run for 30 years.A total of 9 billion cubic meters of natural gas will be extracted (提取) during the process, enough to power upTianjin,with its permanent population of nearly 14 million,for 15 years.

5It has added oil and gas proven reserves totaling 1 billion tons in the last five years,providing a solid material guarantee for its Bohai Oilfield to churn out 40 million tons of crude per year.Bohai Oilfield is China's largest oil producing base.Experts said offshore oil has increasingly become a source of growth in China's energy reserves.In January, the company said it aims to produce 6.5 to 6.6 million barrels of oil equivalent for 2023.

6Bozhong 26-6 is the third oilfield discovery with 100 million tons of reserves in the Bohai Sea after Kenli 6-1 and Kenli 10-2.CNOOC's discovery came at a time when the International Energy Agency(IEA)is predicting an increase in gas demand from China.

7According to IEA Gas Market Report for the first quarter of 2023, China's gas consumption is projected to see a rebound (反彈) of nearly 7 percent in 2023.The report further noted that the uncertainty range for China's liquefied natural gas (LNG) (中國液化天然氣)demand is 40 billion cubic meters.

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The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced that it had discovered a field in the Bohai Sea with estimated crude oil and natural gas reserves exceeding 100 million tonnes of oil equivalent.中國海洋石油集團有限公司宣布，其在渤海發現了一個估計原油和天然氣儲量超過1億噸油當量的油田。

【點石成金】本句中，that 引導的是一個賓語從句，從句中with estimated crude oil and natural gas reserves exceeding...oil equivalent是“with+名詞+現在分詞”的結構。

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solid material guarantee 堅實的物質保障

gas consumption 耗氣量

International Energy Agency 國際能源署

China's energy reserve 中國的能源儲備