First Sino-U.S. Government Shale Gas Cooperation Project Completed

On February 27, the National Energy Administration organized the fourth meeting of the Sino-US Shale Gas Resource Working Group. Experts from both China and the United States discussed the recent completion of the shale gas resource evaluation project in the eastern sag of the Liaohe River by the US Geological Survey (USGS). . This project is the first shale gas cooperation project between the governments of China and the United States.

In November 2009, during the visit of President Obama to China, the National Energy Administration and the US State Department signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Shale Gas Cooperation. According to the memorandum, the two sides signed the "Work Plan for the Sino-US Shale Gas Resources Working Group" on May 25, 2010. The two sides each established a resource working group. The United States sent experts from the working group to China to exchange information on shale gas development and resource assessment techniques, and to carry out resource assessment research in the eastern depression of the Liaohe River. The two parties held three resource working group meetings in November 2010, March 2011, and May 2011 respectively to exchange information on shale gas resource assessment techniques. The study established the method for evaluating the resources of the eastern depression of the Liaohe River and the required data. The sag shale gas resources exchange views. Recently, USGS experts completed the evaluation of shale gas resources in the eastern sag of the Liaohe River, and made a briefing at the fourth resource working group meeting on February 27.

Pascale, the head of the U.S. State Department’s energy resource bureau, attended the meeting and expressed his hope to further promote the cooperation between China and the United States in all aspects of the shale gas field and proposed that the National Energy Administration and the U.S. Department of State formulate the next work on in-depth cooperation on non-conventional energy sources. Plan and form a cooperation mechanism.