On November 27th, 2024，Xu Dachun, Party Member and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources, along with his delegation, visited the ZPEC Xinjiang Wensu Oilfield for research. He affirmed ZPEC’s efficient promotion of oil and gas resource exploration，development, and production. He then encouraged the company to fully leverage its strength to ensure national energy resource security, to make new contributions, and to demonstrate new actions in the new round of strategic actions for mineral exploration breakthroughs.

Sun Jizhou, the Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region’s Department of Natural Resources, Muhtar Kalimubek, the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Department, Wu Hongzhan, the Secretary of the Aksu Prefectural Committee, and the leaders from the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Mining Rights Management Department, Geological Exploration Management Department, and the Mineral Resource Protection Supervision Department, Zhang Jun, the Party Member and Deputy Director of the Xinjiang Department of Natural Resources, and Li Xuesong, the Vice President of ZPEC and the General Manager of ZPEC (Aksu) Oil and Gas Company, accompanied the research.

At the Wen 7 Oil Well Station in the Wenbei Oilfield’s Wen 7 Block, Xu Dachun and his delegation listened to Li Xuesong’s report on the company’s development, mining rights transfer, block exploration and development, and the 14th Five-Year Plan. They exchanged opinions and suggestions on promoting the reform and development of natural resources.

Mr. Xu Dachun pointed out that, as a private enterprise, ZPEC has the advantages of integration and flexible mechanisms, with significant exploration，development and production results. He hoped ZPEC would further increase the intensity of oil and gas exploration and production, continue to consolidate and expand the resource base, and strive for new breakthroughs in new strata and fields. The company should summarize and improve geological understanding, manage and apply geological data and information, and strengthen basic geological research and oil and gas resource investigation and evaluation. At the same time, it should actively participate in the new round of strategic actions for mineral exploration breakthroughs, adhere to the concept of green exploration and green development, conserve and intensively use resources, and provide strong energy resource security for national and local economic and social development.

Mr. Li Xuesong expressed deep gratitude for the care and assistance provided by the Ministry of Natural Resources and other central departments and governments at all levels of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region for the Wensu Project. He stated that ZPEC would further increase the intensity of exploration and production, focus on exploration in key areas, and promote the increase of oil and gas reserves and production. At the same time, the company will actively respond to the national strategic deployment, participate in the bidding for new oil and gas blocks, form new reserve and production replacement areas, help the high-quality development of the oil and gas industry in Xinjiang, and make new contributions to promote national oil and gas resource reform. (ZPEC (Aksu) Oil and Gas/ Text by Chen Lulu, photos by Shang Zhigang)”