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The Qaidam Basin is an intermontane oil and gas basin in northwest China. The dominant field grouping is Qinghai fields, and the main producers include the Gasikule and Huangutou field. Produced crude is transported from Huangutou to the new refinery at Golmud, where a petrochemical complex also consumes a proportion of the basin's gas. Qaidam Basin is now China's fourth largest onshore gas producing region, behind Sichuan, Ordos and Tarim.

Vermilion Energy operates the offshore Corrib field, which is Ireland's dominant source of gas supply. Corrib is located around 70 kilometres off the northwest coast of Ireland, in water depths of over 350 metres. The strategically important deposit is the second largest gas field ever discovered in Ireland, second only to Kinsale Head and Ballycotton.Gas production began in 2015 after more than a decade of delays. Corrib was originally expected onstream in 2003, but the project was ...