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China’s Homegrown Gas Push Is a New Headache for the World’s Exporters

With oil demand nearing its peak, the country’s largest hydrocarbon producers are looking elsewhere.

Pipework at a shale gas collection and transfer facility run by a unit of Sinopec in Jiaoshiba, China.

Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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Welcome to Energy Daily, our guide to the commodities markets powering the global economy. Today, reporter Dan Murtaugh takes a look at China’s energy giants.

International oil majors have spent billions of dollars producing natural gas for Chinese consumers. Now, homegrown titans look set to beat them to the punch.

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