China Estimates Exploitable Shale-Gas Reserves at 25.08 TCM
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China has 25.08 trillion cubic meters (886 trillion cubic feet) of exploitable onshore shale-gas reserves, according to the nation’s land ministry.
The resources are part of an estimated 134.42 trillion cubic meters of total reserves of the gas in the country, the Ministry of Land and Resources said in a statement on its website today, citing a nationwide survey. Shale gas has already been discovered in 880,000 square kilometers (340,000 square miles) of exploration blocks that contain 15.95 trillion cubic meters of the fuel that can be extracted, it said.