By KUNA,
Tokyo : State-run PetroChina’s oil and gas production in the quake-hit southwest Sichuan Province has almost restored to a normal level, official news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday.
“The daily output of gas has reached 99 percent of its full capacity before the quake,” the country’s largest oil producer said in a statement, according to Xinhua.
PetroChina pledged 100,000 tons of emergency oil supplies to the province and had sent 83,300 tons by Monday, according to the report.
The company also said it so far had resumed fuel supply among all gas stations in the province.
The 8.0-magnitude quake that struck southwest China’s Sichuan Province on May 12 had killed 34,073 and injured 245,108 others as of Monday. A primary investigation showed that 14,207 industrial enterprises suffered CNY 67 billion (USD 9.6 billion) of direct economic loss in Sichuan province alone, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xi Guohua said Monday.