![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is China cannot meet its rising demand for gas with its limited reserves of conventional gas. Natural gas burns more cleanly than other fossil fuels and installing gas-fired power generation is cheaper and easier than building nuclear plants. China also pumps more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other country.īeijing’s bureaucrats thus face a daunting challenge: how to clean up its brown skies while meeting the world’s fastest growing energy demand. It will soon overtake the United States as the world’s top energy user and is already the world’s biggest coal burner. Industry estimates in China peg shale gas resources slightly lower - but still huge - at 26 trillion cubic metres (tcm), although they have yet to give their own forecasts of how much of that is recoverable.Ĭhina’s imminent shale rush comes at a critical point. Energy Information Agency in a report last month estimates China holds 36.1 trillion cubic metres (1,275 trillion cubic feet) of technically recoverable shale gas reserves - significantly higher than the 24.4 tcm (862 trillion cubic feet) in the United States, which has the second-most. That gives us a lot of confidence,” said Zhang Dawei, deputy director of the Strategic Research Centre for Oil and Gas in the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR).Ĭhina’s confidence has been bolstered by a new report of its estimated reserves of shale gas, which shows them to be, by far, the largest in the world. “America’s shale gas production alone has exceeded that of total Chinese gas output. This is an American dream that China wants to emulate. Instead, the United States is turning import facilities into export terminals, because its shale gas reserves are estimated to be big enough to meet domestic demand for 30 years. ![]() Just a few years ago, the United States was building scores of expensive facilities to import liquefied natural gas (LNG), looking at booming long-term demand forecasts and wondering which countries would supply the huge volume of imports it needed. ![]() Once deemed too costly to extract, shale gas has turned around U.S. Just over a year ago, Beijing awakened to a technology revolution that has unlocked massive reserves of gas trapped within shale rock formations in the United States. REUTERS/Stringerīut China may have more energy riches under its own soil than policy makers in the world’s second-largest economy ever dared imagine. Alongside the bed is a bipartite wooden chest, left open at the moment when the owners fled.Workers carry out a practice drill in case of a hydrogen sulfide leak at a natural gas appraisal well of Sinopec in Langzhong county, Sichuan province March 1, 2011. It is a group of seven triptychs, tied together by a small cord both horizontally and vertically,” Pompeii officials say.Ī bedroom complete with furnishings is on the lower floor adjacent to the lararium, housing a wooden bed similar in structure to three beds discovered last year in the Villa of Civita Giuliana in the Room of the Slaves. “A truly unique find, it has allowed us to create the first example of a cast which allows a perfect yield of both volume and detail. In the upper rooms, well-preserved ceramic vessels for everyday use in the kitchen and the canteen, but also vessels made from sigillata-a type of Roman fine table ceramic-and from glass were found within a large cupboard, which collapsed during the eruption.Ī small cast of waxed tablets is another significant discovery. Recent archaeological digs revealed four new rooms: two upper areas on the first floor of the house and those on the ground floor in front of the lararium. The small, furnished rooms were discovered around a lararium, a room of worship decorated with depictions of plants and birds (this part of the site was excavated in 2018 in Regio V, one of the largest districts of the ancient city). Archaeologists at the ancient site, which was engulfed by volcanic ash in 79AD spewing from Mount Vesuvius, have unearthed a series of rooms in a residence belonging to a middle-class family whose household items were buried in the volcanic debris. ![]()
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