Karamay Oilfield

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Karamay Oilfield is a major petroleum field in Xinjiang, China, known as one of the country’s earliest and most productive onshore oilfields.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oil field
associatedCityType resource-based city
cityDevelopedAround Karamay NERFINISHED
continent Asia
contributedTo development of Karamay city
country China
countryRank among China’s earliest large-scale oilfields
developmentStatus mature oilfield
discovered 1955
discoveryMethod geological exploration in Junggar Basin
economicRole important base for China’s energy supply
key pillar of Xinjiang’s petroleum industry
eraOfDiscovery 1950s
geologicalBasin Junggar Basin NERFINISHED
infrastructure gathering and transportation pipelines
oil processing facilities
oil wells
storage tanks
knownFor high productivity among Chinese onshore oilfields
languageOfToponym Uyghur NERFINISHED
locatedIn Karamay NERFINISHED
Northwest China NERFINISHED
Xinjiang NERFINISHED
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
managedBy Karamay Oilfield Company NERFINISHED
namedAfter Karamay NERFINISHED
onshoreOffshore onshore
operator CNPC NERFINISHED
China National Petroleum Corporation NERFINISHED
ownership state-owned
parentCompany China National Petroleum Corporation NERFINISHED
partOf Junggar Basin NERFINISHED
productionType conventional oil
regionType inland oilfield
resourceType crude oil
natural gas
sector energy industry
petroleum industry
significance one of China’s important petroleum production bases
one of China’s major onshore oilfields
one of the earliest large oilfields discovered in New China
startOfProduction 1958
subdivisionOf People’s Republic of China NERFINISHED
transport pipeline transport of crude oil

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Karamay isOilFieldCenterOf Karamay Oilfield