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PetroChina, the Glossary

PetroChina Company Limited is a Chinese oil and gas company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), headquartered in Dongcheng District, Beijing.^[1]

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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An American depositary receipt (abbreviated ADR, and sometimes spelled depository) is a negotiable security that represents securities of a foreign company and allows that company's shares to trade in the U.S. financial markets.

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Anping County

Anping is a county located in the middle of Hebei Province, it is about away from Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital.

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Australia–China relations

Consular relations between China and Australia were first established in 1909, and diplomatic relations were established in 1941.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Benzene

Benzene is an organic chemical compound with the molecular formula C6H6. The benzene molecule is composed of six carbon atoms joined in a planar hexagonal ring with one hydrogen atom attached to each. Because it contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms, benzene is classed as a hydrocarbon. Benzene is a natural constituent of petroleum and is one of the elementary petrochemicals.

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Bohai Bay

Bohai Bay is one of the three major bays of the Bohai Sea, the northwestern and innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea.

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British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla.

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Calgary

Calgary is the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Central Asia–China gas pipeline

The Central Asia–China gas pipeline (known also as Turkmenistan–China gas pipeline) is a natural gas pipeline system from Central Asia to Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China.

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Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is the highest supervisory organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chengdu

Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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China National Offshore Oil Corporation

China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC Group, is the third-largest national oil company in China, after CNPC (parent of PetroChina) and China Petrochemical Corporation (parent of Sinopec). PetroChina and China National Offshore Oil Corporation are government-owned companies of China, natural gas companies of China and oil companies of China.

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China National Petroleum Corporation

The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is a major national oil and gas corporation of China and one of the largest integrated energy groups in the world. PetroChina and China National Petroleum Corporation are government-owned companies of China, natural gas companies of China and oil companies of China.

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China Petrochemical Corporation

China Petrochemical Corporation or Sinopec Group is an oil refining, gas and petrochemical conglomerate, administered by SASAC for the State Council of the People's Republic of China. PetroChina and China Petrochemical Corporation are government-owned companies of China and oil companies of China.

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Coalbed methane

Coalbed methane (CBM or coal-bed methane), coalbed gas, or coal seam gas (CSG) is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds.

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Color in Chinese culture

Chinese culture attaches certain values to colors, such as considering some to be auspicious (吉利) or inauspicious (不利).

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Dongcheng, Beijing

Dongcheng is a district of the city of Beijing.

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Dushanzi, Karamay

Dushanzi District or Maytag District, is a district of the city of Karamay, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Karamay City.

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Duvernay Formation

The Duvernay Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Frasnian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

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Encana

Encana Corporation was a Canadian independent petroleum company that existed from 2002 to 2020.

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Endeavor Business Media is an American business-to-business media company founded by Chris Ferrell and others in December 2017.

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Ethylene

Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon which has the formula or.

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ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. PetroChina and ExxonMobil are energy companies established in 1999 and non-renewable resource companies established in 1999.

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Fidelity Investments

Fidelity Investments, formerly known as Fidelity Management & Research (FMR), is an American multinational financial services corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Forbes Global 2000

The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2000 public companies in the world, published by: sales, profit, assets and market value.

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Fuel

A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as thermal energy or to be used for work.

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Fujian

Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.

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Fuzhou

Fuzhou is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China.

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Gansu

Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.

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Gazprom

PJSC Gazprom (ɡɐsˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Hang Seng Index

The Hang Seng Index (HSI) is a market-capitalization-weighted stock market index in Hong Kong, adjusted for free float. PetroChina and Hang Seng Index are companies in the Hang Seng Index.

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Harbin

Harbin is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China.

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Harper Perennial

Harper Perennial is a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins Publishers.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hong Kong Stock Exchange

--> The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (香港交易所, SEHK, also known as Hong Kong Stock Exchange) is a stock exchange based in Hong Kong.

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Hydrocarbon exploration

Hydrocarbon exploration (or oil and gas exploration) is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for deposits of hydrocarbons, particularly petroleum and natural gas, in the Earth's crust using petroleum geology.

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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Inc. (ICIJ), is an independent global network of 280 investigative journalists and over 140 media organizations spanning more than 100 countries.

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Jiang Jiemin

Jiang Jiemin (born October 1954) is a former Chinese oil executive and senior Communist Party and economic official.

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Jidong Nanpu oil field

The Jidong Nanpu oil field is an oil field located in Bohai Bay, China.

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Jilin

Jilin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.

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Joint-stock company

A joint-stock company (JSC) is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk (Хабаровск) is the largest city and the administrative centre of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia,Law #109 located from the China–Russia border, at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, about north of Vladivostok.

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Khorgos

Khorgos (from Хоргос), officially known as KorgasThe official spelling according to Zhōngguó dìmínglù, 中国地名录 (Beijing, SinoMaps Press 中国地图出版社 1997); (from Kazakh: قورعاس), is a county-level city in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

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Lanzhou

Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of Gansu province in northwestern China.

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Li Zhaoxing

Li Zhaoxing (born 20 October 1940) is a Chinese diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of China from 2003 to 2007.

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Liao Yongyuan

Liao Yongyuan (born 1962) is a former Chinese business executive.

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Liquefied natural gas

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport.

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List of oil exploration and production companies

The following is a list of notable companies in the petroleum industry that are engaged in petroleum exploration and production.

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Lubricant

A lubricant (sometimes shortened to lube) is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move.

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Lunnan

Lunnan is a Norwegian surname.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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Nepal Oil Corporation

Nepal Oil Corporation Limited (NOC) (नेपाल आयल निगम लिमिटेड) is a monopoly state owned trading enterprise of Nepal that imports, stores and distributes various petroleum products in the country. In Nepal, no private or other companies are allowed to import Petrol and Diesel other than NOC.

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New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Oil & Gas Journal

The Oil & Gas Journal is a leading petroleum industry weekly publication with a worldwide coverage.

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Oil refinery

An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.

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Panchkhal

Panchkhal (पाँचखाल) is a Municipality in Kavrepalanchok District in the Bagmati Province of central Nepal.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Petrochemical

Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining.

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PetroChina

PetroChina Company Limited is a Chinese oil and gas company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), headquartered in Dongcheng District, Beijing. PetroChina and PetroChina are 1999 in Beijing, 2007 initial public offerings, Berkshire Hathaway, Chinese brands, Chinese companies established in 1999, companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange, companies in the CSI 100 Index, companies in the FTSE China A50 Index, companies in the Hang Seng Index, companies in the S&P Asia 50, companies in the SSE 50 Index, companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, energy companies established in 1999, government-owned companies of China, h shares, Hang Seng China 50 Index, natural gas companies of China, non-renewable resource companies established in 1999, oil companies of China and Retail companies established in 1999.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Rebiya Kadeer

Rebiya Kadeer (translit; born 15 November 1946) is an ethnic Uyghur businesswoman and political activist.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rio Tinto espionage case

The Rio Tinto espionage case began with the arrest on 5 July 2009, of four staff in the Shanghai office of the Rio Tinto, in the People's Republic of China, who were subsequently accused of bribery and espionage.

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Rolls-Royce Holdings

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011.

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Shaan–Jing pipeline

The Shaan–Jing pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in China, which runs from Jingbian County to Beijing and Tianjin.

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Shaanxi

Shaanxi is an inland province in Northwestern China.

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Shale gas

Shale gas is an unconventional natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Shanghai Stock Exchange

The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is a stock exchange based in the city of Shanghai, China.

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Shanxi

Shanxi is an inland province of China and is part of the North China region.

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Shell plc

Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Singapore Petroleum Company

Singapore Petroleum Company Limited, in short SPC, is a Singaporean multinational oil and gas company.

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Sinopec

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec, is a Chinese oil and gas enterprise based in Beijing. PetroChina and Sinopec are Chinese brands, companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange, companies in the CSI 100 Index, companies in the FTSE China A50 Index, companies in the Hang Seng Index, companies in the S&P Asia 50, companies in the SSE 50 Index, companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, government-owned companies of China, h shares, Hang Seng China 50 Index and oil companies of China.

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Songhua River

The Songhua or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, Сунгари Sungari) is one of the primary rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.

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SSE 50 Index

SSE 50 Index is the stock index of Shanghai Stock Exchange, representing the top 50 companies by "float-adjusted" capitalization and other criteria. PetroChina and SSE 50 Index are companies in the SSE 50 Index.

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State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council

The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) is a special commission of the People's Republic of China, directly under the State Council. PetroChina and State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council are government-owned companies of China.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity which is established and/or owned by a national or state/provincial government, by an executive order or an act of legislation, in order to earn profit for the government, control monopoly of the private sector over means of production, provide commodities to citizens at a lower price, implement government policies, and/or to deliver products and services to remote locations that otherwise have trouble attracting private vendors.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Tarim Basin

The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Xinjiang, Northwestern China occupying an area of about and one of the largest basins in Northwest China.

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Tarim oil fields

The Tarim oil fields are oil fields found in the Tarim Basin or the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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War in Darfur

The War in Darfur, also nicknamed the Land Cruiser War, was a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting against the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PetroChina

Also known as Brion Energy, Logo of PetroChina, Petro China, Petro-China, PetroChina Coalbed Methane, PetroChina Company, PetroChina Company Limited, PetroChina Company Ltd., PetroChina Marketing, .

, Khorgos, Lanzhou, Li Zhaoxing, Liao Yongyuan, Liquefied natural gas, List of oil exploration and production companies, Lubricant, Lunnan, Myanmar, Natural gas, Nepal, Nepal Oil Corporation, New York Stock Exchange, Oil & Gas Journal, Oil refinery, Panchkhal, Penguin Books, Petrochemical, PetroChina, Petroleum, Rebiya Kadeer, Reuters, Rio Tinto espionage case, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Shaan–Jing pipeline, Shaanxi, Shale gas, Shanghai, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shanxi, Shell plc, Singapore Petroleum Company, Sinopec, Songhua River, South China Morning Post, SSE 50 Index, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, State-owned enterprise, Sudan, Tarim Basin, Tarim oil fields, The New York Times, War in Darfur, Xinhua News Agency, Xinjiang, Yale University, Zhou Jiping, Zhou Yongkang.

PetroChina, the Glossary

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1999 in Beijing

Companies in the FTSE China A50 Index

Companies in the Hang Seng Index

Companies in the S&P Asia 50

Companies in the SSE 50 Index

Energy companies established in 1999

Natural gas companies of China

Non-renewable resource companies established in 1999

Oil companies of China

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