{"id":396623,"date":"2026-01-29T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:31:13","slug":"chinas-record-natural-gas-output-driven-by-shale-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396623\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s record natural gas output driven by shale development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/energy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Country reduces dependence on LNG imports, especially from the US<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/7.png\" alt=\"20260128N China gas\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A shale gas development operates in the\u00a0Fuling District of Chongqing, China. (China Petroleum and Chemical Corp.)<\/p>\n<p>Nikkei staff writers<\/p>\n<p>January 29, 2026 01:55 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; China&#8217;s natural gas production reached an all-time high last year due to the state-backed rush to develop shale fields and other non-conventional sources, reaching a level capable of supplying 60% of domestic consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Energy Country reduces dependence on LNG imports, especially from the US A shale gas development operates in the\u00a0Fuling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,8383,8063,148789,1294,2983,25066,148788,4669,12627,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-396623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-chinas","tag-development","tag-driven","tag-economy","tag-gas","tag-natural","tag-output","tag-record","tag-shale","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}