{"id":731,"date":"2021-03-08T08:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2021-03-08T08:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:23:56","slug":"chinas-gas-production-to-maintain-solid-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/chinas-gas-production-to-maintain-solid-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s gas production to maintain solid growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/YPKJ2S_S_0SY@JZP-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/YPKJ2S_S_0SY@JZP-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/YPKJ2S_S_0SY@JZP.png 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING, March 8 &#8212; China&#8217;s gas sector exhibited a strong performance in the latter half of 2020 and medium-term growth will remain solid, according to the latest report from Fitch Ratings.<\/p>\n<p>A recovery in industrial activity following coronavirus pandemic lockdowns and an exceptionally cold winter triggered a gas-supply shortage in late 2020, with strong demand leading to higher gas imports, the ratings agency noted.<\/p>\n<p>However, last year&#8217;s gas-supply crunch was less severe than that seen in 2017, as national oil companies had moved some long-term contract deliveries to the winter to close the gap, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of new liquefied natural gas terminals, storage facilities and pipelines also helped to boost supply.<\/p>\n<p>Fitch said it expects the medium to long-term gas supply to remain firm, driven by solid gas demand momentum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;National oil companies are steering investment towards gas rather than crude oil in a bid to achieve carbon neutrality while safeguarding national energy,&#8221; it noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, March 8 &#8212; China&#8217;s gas sector exhib &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/chinas-gas-production-to-maintain-solid-growth\/\" class=\"more-link\">\u7ee7\u7eed\u9605\u8bfb<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China&#8217;s gas production to maintain solid growth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.china-qualityinspection.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}