Storyline China sees record oil, gas output in 2025 Offshore and ultra-deep oil and gas fields were the primary growth drivers for China’s oil industry last year with the country’s crude oil output reaching a record high of 215 million tons and natural gas production expanding to 260 billion cubic meters. Gas and oil production increased at many of the country’s major oil and gas fields including at the Hade-Fuman Oilfield in northwest China's Taklimakan Desert which surpassed 5 million tons, setting a record. Wang Xiaopeng, executive director, Hade Oil and Gas Production Management Area, Tarim Oilfield Branch, China National Petroleum Corporation: "We have developed over 10 oil and gas blocks in the Fuman Oilfield. Through exploration and development, we have confirmed continuous oil-bearing strata along fault zones below 7,500 meters in the Taklamakan Desert, solidifying the theoretical basis for ultra-deep oil and gas production." Elsewhere in northwest China’s Ordos Basin, Sinopec’s Daniudi and Dongsheng gas fields have produced over 70 billion cubic meters of natural gas, marking a milestone in China's development of tight sandstone gas reservoirs. And at the Puguang Gas Field in southwest China's Sichuan Basin, cumulative natural gas production topped 140 billion cubic meters last year. [Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland]