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China’s First Shale Gas Production-Sharing Contract
March 27, 2012 | Bloomberg.com

China is thought to have more shale gas than the United States but so far the resource is undeveloped – partly because of a lack of technology. Royal Dutch Shell will help change that by entering into a production sharing contract with the China National Petroleum Corporation.


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