The Chinese state-owned offshore oil and gas company CNOOC has made a large-sized discovery in Bohai Bay.
The company believes the Kenli 6-1 discovery to be the first large-sized oil field in the Laibei lower uplift. This is in the southern area of the Bohai basin.
The well was drilled and completed in water depth of 1,596m. It encountered oil pay zones with a total thickness of around 20m.
CNNOC said the exploration of Kenli 6-1 structure further proves the company’s exploration potential of the Neogene lithologic reservoir in the Laizhou Bay.
Bohai is the company’s main reserve, and crude produced in the region is mostly heavy oil.
This discovery stands with the six Bohai discoveries made in 2018. These are Luda 10-6, Luda 4-3, Luda 6-2 South, Bozhong 13-2, Longkou 19-1 North, and Kenli 5-1.
The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) 9th (Kinmen) Offshore Flotilla on Thursday (March 19) reported that its vessels were attacked by more than 10 Chinese speedboats, which hurled rocks, bottles and rammed the cutters.
The CGA said the skirmish resulted in multi-task offshore patrol cutter CP-1022 suffering damage to two of three outboard motors after the Chinese speedboats rammed into it, reported Liberty Times. The CGA demanded that China track down the culprits, arrest them, and compensate Taiwan for the damages.
At about 9 a.m. on March 16, as patrol cutters CP-1022 and CP-2006, along with three Taiwanese fishing boats, were driving off Chinese fishing vessels and removing illegal fishing nets, more than 10 unmarked Chinese speedboats rushed in and began hurling rocks and beer bottles at the CGA craft. During the skirmish, CP-1022, which had begun active duty on March 13 and cost NT$6 million (US$197,000) to build, was intentionally rammed from behind by the speedboats.
Chinese speedboats (center and right), CGA cutter (second from left). (CGA photo)
To fend off the Chinese speedboats, CGA officers hurled six stun grenades and fired five bean bag rounds at the Chinese crews, prompting them to beat a hasty retreat. One CGA officer was quoted by Liberty Times as saying, “We’ve never seen more than 10 Chinese speedboats swarm and aggressively attack like this.”
In the process, two outboard motors, valued at NT$600,000 each, were badly damaged and shards of broken bottles littered the cutter’s deck. No CGA personnel were injured during the assault.
Chen Chien-wen (陳建文), director of the CGA’s 9th Offshore Flotilla in Kinmen, said the incident occurred on the median line in the Taiwan Strait, according to the report. Chen said that during the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the CGA will not hesitate to drive away foreign intruders and protect Taiwan from the disease.
The CGA shipped two new outboard motors from Kaohsiung to Kinmen to replace the damaged ones on CP-1022, reported Apple Daily. The cutter is expected to resume service on Monday (March 23), when it will continue to defend Taiwan’s waters against illegal fishing and help protect Taiwan’s borders from the spread of COVID-19.
CGA cutter (foreground) as Chinese speedboats lurk behind. (CGA)
Chinese speedboat (right) races toward CGA cutter (second from left). (CGA image)
CGA officer points out damage to CP-1022’s outboard motors. (CNA photo)
Scientists in southwest China on Tuesday said they had built the world’s second biggest solar telescope, which they say will provide more accurate data and improve forecasting.
With a 1.8-metre aperture, the Chinese Large Solar Telescope (CLST) was developed by the Institute of Optics and Electronics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
The Honourable Minister, Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Arc. Olamilekan Adegbite on Thursday 19th March 2020, laid the first stone for the commencement of construction of the Segilola Gold Mine in the communities of Odo-Ijesha and Iperindo in Osun State.
In his keynote address, The Hon Minister, emphasised on the importance of the kick starting of the mining sector in Nigeria which had been earmarked as a key sector to grow the economy. The Honourable Minister assured that the Federal Government was committed to supporting companies in the sector and hailed the project, which is being built by Canadian listed gold developer, Thor Explorations, through its wholly owned local subsidiary, Segilola Resources Operating Limited, as a pioneering project in the Nigerian Mining Sector.
The first cross-river railway bridge connecting China with Russia has connected from both sides on Wednesday, further paving the way for the bridge to be operational within this year.
The bridge, across the Heilongjiang River, known as the Amur River in Russia, will connect the city of Tongjiang, in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, with Nizhneleninskoye in Russia.
The main bridge spans 2,215 meters, with 1,886 meters of that standing in China. Construction of the bridge, which has a designed annual throughput capacity of 21 million metric tons, began in February 2014.
In this second case, the person received a stem cell transplant with cells that did not express the CCR5 gene, which produces a protein that helps the virus enter cells.
The cells without the CCR5 gene were part of a bone marrow transplant, which the person was undergoing as a treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma.
Following the transplant, and at 30 months after the person ceased antiretroviral therapy, doctors confirmed that the HIV viral load remained undetectable in blood samples.
Chinese biophysicist He Jianku 贺建奎 was right when He made expansive claims of a medical breakthrough that could “control the HIV epidemic”.https://www.theguardian.com/…/china-gene-edited-baby…. He is in jail for a 3-years sentence because he was accused by the world to have violated ethics. Perhaps he should be un-villanized now, may be even win a Nobel Prize.Edit or delete this
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday inspected the COVID19 outbreak epicenter in central China, pledging a continuous fight toward victory as prevention and control efforts have “turned the tide.”
The inspection to Wuhan, Hubei Province, took the president to a hospital treating severely ill COVID-19 patients and a residential community. He visited patients, medics, community residents and workers, police officers, military personnel, officials and volunteers who have been fighting the novel coronavirus.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, called for firm, solid and meticulous prevention and control efforts to defend Hubei and Wuhan.
Xi said thanks to hard work, the situation in Hubei and Wuhan has shown positive changes with important progress, but the task of prevention and control remains arduous.
Xi stressed continuing to take epidemic prevention and control as a task of paramount importance.
Praising the people of Wuhan, Xi said the positive trend in epidemic control could not have been achieved without their sacrifice, devotion, perseverance and efforts.
With their concrete actions, the people of Wuhan have demonstrated the strength and spirit of China, as well as the Chinese people’s love for their family and nation, which enables them to stick together through thick and thin, he said.
On behalf of the CPC Central Committee, Xi sent condolences to people who died in the epidemic and people who sacrificed their lives fighting on the front line.
Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, also attended the inspection.
In Huoshenshan Hospital, the first leg of his inspection, Xi lauded medical workers as “the most beautiful angels” and “messengers of light and hope.”
The frontline medical workers have taken on the most arduous missions, Xi said, calling them “the most admirable people in the new era” who deserve the highest commendations.
Xi talked with patients in the hospital through a video link, and expressed his wishes for their quick recovery.
“All prevention and control measures taken by the CPC Central Committee against the virus are to prevent more people from being infected and save more patients’ lives,” Xi said.
Meeting medic representatives in the hospital, Xi said the spread of the virus has been basically curbed in Hubei and Wuhan, and attributed the achievement to efforts of the whole Party, the whole country and the whole society.
“But you are the biggest heroes,” Xi told the medics.
Leaving Huoshenshan Hospital, Xi came to a residential community. People quarantined at home waved to Xi from their balconies and windows. Xi waved back and expressed his regards.
Xi stressed the importance of communities in epidemic prevention and control, requiring grassroots Party organizations and Party members to play their key roles in containing the virus spread in communities.
He emphasized closely relying on the people to win the people’s war against the epidemic.
After the field inspection, Xi chaired a teleconference and delivered an important speech.
Xi said since the outbreak, the CPC Central Committee has taken the most comprehensive, rigorous and thorough prevention and control measures to resolutely curb the spread of the virus in Wuhan and Hubei.
“Initial success has been achieved in stabilizing the situation and turning the tide,” he said.
Xi said medical treatment should be given the top priority to improve the recovery rate and reduce mortality to the greatest extent under the principle of scientific and targeted treatment.
Noting that the fight against the virus is at a critical moment, Xi stressed further preventing the spread and exportation of cases.
Xi demanded more understanding and tolerance for people in Hubei and Wuhan if some vent their feelings for long time under self-quarantine, as well as efforts to ensure the supply of their life necessities.
The epidemic will not affect the fundamentals of Hubei’s steady and long-term sound economic development, Xi said, urging implementation of policies and measures to support enterprises, stabilize employment and create more jobs.
Calling the response to the virus a “test” for China’s system and capacity for governance, which has brought both experience and lessons, Xi demanded efforts to fix the shortcomings and weak links as soon as possible.
Xi urged Party organizations, members and officials to shoulder responsibilities, adopt sound prevention and control measures and improve their capabilities in the test.
