A drilling rig at the Tarim Basin in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Xinjiang is expected to replace northeast China as the new energy base of China. It will supply over one fifth of China's total oil by 2010, including an output of 35 million tons and an import of 10 million tons of crude oil from Kazakhstan.
Two workers work on an oil rig at the Tarim Basin in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 9, 2004. Xinjiang is expected to replace northeast China as the new energy base of China.
A worker works on an oil rig at the Tarim Basin in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Nov. 9, 2004. Xinjiang is expected to replace northeast China as the new energy base of China.
English home
