Aerial photo taken on Feb. 21, 2021 shows the Bozhong 13-2 field, which is situated in the middle of the Bohai Sea, 140 km away from north China's Tianjin Municipality. (Tianjin branch of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)/Handout via Xinhua)
BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua) -- China's crude oil output reached 33.47 million tonnes in the first two months of 2022, up 4.6 percent from the same period last year, official data showed.
The growth pace was 2.9 percentage points higher than the level registered in December 2021, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
Daily output of crude oil averaged 567,000 tonnes, the bureau said.
In the first two months, China's import of crude oil went down 4.9 percent from the year-earlier level to 85.14 million tonnes, the data showed.
Last year, China's crude oil output reached nearly 199 million tonnes, up 2.4 percent from 2020. ■
