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applicability onshore and Britain's oilfield capability is increasingly
finding onshore application worldwide.
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The British In gas also, British industry has much to offer China. Gas Corporation is one of the world's leading utilities engaged in the exploration, development and transmission of natural gas and already
has contracts for work in China. It is actively pursuing further
opportunities including coal gasification using a slagging gasifier
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com demble allite for Shanghai. One project which seems set to obtain Chinese Government approval is the development of China's largest single gas field in the
South China Sea. The project will be one of the largest in southern
China and involves offshore production facilities, an onshore receiving
terminal and a major trunk pipeline to transport the gas over 1,000 kms
to Guangzhou and other centres of utilisation. The onshore development parallels that of bringing North Sea gas from the north east of Scotland to southern England and many UK firms are able to offer relevant
expertise in gas transmission, distribution, storage, compression,
metering and other relevant topics. Also envisaged in the scheme are 2 medium sized power stations and possibly a number of industrial plants,
In all of this, depending on the ultimate extent of the gas reserves. Britain can offer valuable experience to ensure satisfactory project
completion.
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The Chinese leadership has a major task in restructuring its economy and assistance from experienced nations should prove invaluable. the energy sector my Department is actively encouraging co-operation, under fair conditions of trade, between Chinese and UK industry.
has been achieved already and there is good reason to believe that the partnership which has been established between our two countries will
flourish and last long into the future.
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