SHENZHEN, May 22 (Xinhua) -- China's first offshore carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project on Thursday began operations in the Pearl River Mouth Basin in south China, said China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil and gas producer. The project, situated at the Enping 15-1 platform, captures carbon dioxide produced during oil development, purifies and pressurizes it to a supercritical state, and injects it into underground oil reservoirs at an initial rate of 8 tonnes per hour.
URUMQI, May 20 (Xinhua) -- A three-hour drive from Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the towering silver structures of a monumental power transmission project emerge from the vast, sunbaked terrain. Each day, the transmission lines stretching over 3,000 km deliver electricity generated from Xinjiang's abundant wind and solar resources to east China's Anhui Province, where it is redistributed to power the bustling cities of the Yangtze River Delta.
NANJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- At a new energy vehicle industrial park in the city of Xuzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, a large digital screen flashes real-time data on solar power generation and carbon dioxide reduction. Sprawling across the park's rooftops are 52,000 square meters of photovoltaic panels, supported by an energy storage system.
Workers operate at the construction site of Yebatan Hydropower Station in southwest China, Nov. 5, 2024.