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The Shengli Oil Field is the second-largest oil field in the People’s Republic of China, with daily production of approximately 650,000 barrels.

It is located in the Yellow River delta, in the north of Shandong province bordering Bohai Sea. Its main working area covers 28 counties under the jurisdiction of eight prefecture level cities in Shandong Province, namely Dongying, Binzhou, Dezhou, Jinan, Weifang, Zibo, Liaocheng and Yantai. The major production area lies on both sides of the Yellow River Mouth.

The field was discovered in 1961 and its development began in 1964. It has accumulated proven oil of reserves of 4.63 billion tons

Historically, China’s cultural sphere has extended across East Asia as a whole, with Chinese religion, customs, and writing systems being adopted to varying degrees by neighbors such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The first evidence of human presence in the region was found at the Zhoukoudian cave. It is one of the first known specimens of Homo erectus, now commonly known as the Peking Man, estimated to have lived from 300,000 to 780,000 years ago.

Daqing Field (simplified Chinese: 大庆油田; traditional Chinese: 大慶油田; pinyin: Dàqìng Yóutián), formerly called “Taching”, is the largest oil field in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), located between the Songhua river and Nunjiang river in Heilongjiang province.

Discovered in 1959 by Li Siguang. Wang Jinxi (known as ‘Iron man’ Wang, who led No. 1205 drilling team) worked on this oilfield. This field has produced over 10 billion barrels (1.6 km³) of oil since production started in 1960. Daqing contained 16 billion barrels (2.5 km³) or 2.2 billion tons in the beginning; the remaining recoverable reserves are about 3.6 billion barrels (572,000,000 m³) or 500 million tons. The current production rate is about 1 million barrels (160,000 m³) per day, making it the fourth most productive oil field in the world. It is reputed that during the first two decades of the life of the field, as much as 90% of the oil was wasted.

When the Chinese government began to use to pinyin Western characters for Romanization, the field’s name became known as Daqing.

Daqing Oilfield Company Limited, based in Daqing, is the operator of exploration and development of Daqing Oilfield. From 2004, the company plans to cut its crude oil output by an annual 7% for the next seven years to extend the life of Daqing.

Jilin Oilfield is located in Songyuan district, in the western plain of Jilin province, China. Its exploration and development cover the southern Songliao basin and Yitong basin within Jilin province.

Its exploration begun in 1955. Since the discovery of its first oilfield – Fuyu oilfield in September 1959 – over 25 oilfields have been developed, such as Fuyu, Mutou, Xinmin, Xinmiao, Xinli, Xinbei, Qianan, Dalaoyefu, Shuangtuozi, Yikeshu, Sifangtuozi, Yingtai, Honggang, Daan, Daanbei, Liangjia, Haituozi, Dafangshen, Sijiazi, Buhai, and Changchunmoliqing and others. Two of these – Fuyu and Xinmin – have reserves over 100 million tons.

In Jilin oilfield, an oil bearing area of 1384.3 km2 has been proven with oil reserves of tons, and a gas-bearing area of 118.9 km2 with proven gas reserves exceeding 50 billion cubic meters.

Youtian, Henan (simplified Chinese: 河南油田; traditional Chinese: 河南油田; pinyin: Yóutián) is the second largest oil field in Henan Province, People’s Republic of China. It is located in Nanyang region. The field was discovered in 1970s. It has accumulated proven oil reserves of 2700 million tons. It is operated by SINOPEC Henan Oilfield Company, a subsidiary of Sinopec.