Sulige Gas Field, with an exploration area of 55,000 km 2 , is located in the middle of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Northern Shanxi Province. Through 16 years of the continuous research, development and construction since its discovery in 2000, its proven geological reserves of natural gas reaches up to 1.64Â10 12 m 3 by the end of 2016. Sulige Gas Field is the only gas field with ultra-trillion cubic meters reserve in China, thus is the basis for establishing the "west-east natural gas transmission" and "Shanxi-east natural gas transmission" projects. Sulige Gas Field has the highest gas production in China, with an existing capacity of 2.3Â10 10 m 3 per year, comprising one-sixth of the natural gas production in China in 2016; 9632 natural gas wells have been put into production including 1220 horizontal well (Fig. 1), while six natural gas processing plants (Fig. 2), 135 gas gathering stations, 25 gas collecting main lines (1071 km), and 6 outputing external gas pipelines (484 km), have been put into production.
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