Country's First Shale Gas Pilot Area Is Being Developed in Chongqing

(Beijing) – China's first pilot area for shale gas production is being developed in Liangping, in eastern Chongqing, a newspaper said on October 24.

The area will produce up to 50,000 cubic meters of shale gas annually by 2015, Chongqing Daily said.

Neither the local resources bureau nor development and reform commission, the agencies that share responsibility for shale gas projects in the southwestern municipality, would comment.