China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) published its 2025 annual performance report on March 26, showing that its daily net production was 2.13 million barrels of oil equivalent and annual net profit attributable to shareholders was 122.1 billion yuan ($17.89 billion).
As of April 16, China’s first hydrogen refueling station along a heavy haul railway, the Batuta Hydrogen Refueling Station, has refueled more than 10,000 kilograms of hydrogen. This marks a milestone in China’s large-scale use of hydrogen energy in the heavy haul railway sector. The station is built by China Energy Investment Corporation Co., Ltd., in Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The outline of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) emphasizes the exploration of the deep sea and strata as well as the polar regions, giving rise to a series of frontier research initiatives.
On April 20, unit one of the Taipingling Nuclear Power Plant, built by China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) in Huizhou City, South China’s Guangdong Province, began operation.
The Kela 2-5 Well of the Tarim Oilfield was reported on April 15 to have reached a cumulative natural gas production of 10.01 billion cubic meters, making it the seventh well in the Kela 2 Gas Field to produce more than 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
China First Heavy Industries (CFHI) successfully produced an ultra-large, ultra-long vertical casting billet measuring 1.6 meters in diameter and 12.5 meters in length, breaking the world record created by itself in 2025. The successful production marks the country’s impressive progress in independently manufacturing ultra-large, high-grade steel billets for high-end heavy equipment.
The world’s largest clean energy corridor operated well in the first quarter of 2026, ensuring a stable water supply, smooth navigation, energy security and ecological preservation along the Yangtze River.
China’s first 180,000-cubic-meter liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, independently designed and built by China Merchants Shipbuilding Industry Group Co., Ltd.(CMI), a subsidiary of China Merchants Group, was completed in Nantong, East China’s Jiangsu Province, ready for delivery.
